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Originally Posted by Tubby
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You wrote
"since in my personal opinion knowledge has fractal structure. You never come to "the bottom" of a fractal like the Cantor Set. We can only scan the surface."
That has to be a natural thread killer.
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Yes, may be.
Fractal mathematics also killed the discussion of some "closed books" in Physics. Years ago it was concluded (don't ask me by whom) that calssic mechanics was a closed book and the quantum mechanics book was about to be closed, too. Then came fractal mathematics with its infinite set of possibilities and the book was wide open for all time. How boring the world would have been if we finally came to the bottom of kowledge.
Questions:
- Are your and my thoughs knowledge?
- Are your and my dreams (widely defined) knowledge?
- What about our sites?
There is a assosiate professor from Australia Dr. David Lowe that together with
Dr. Erik Wilde has written a
good book about a more general protocol and model than that inveted by Tim Berners-Lee (HTTP + HTML).
That book is intimately related to the video in my first post.
I can higly reccomend that Book: "XPath, XLink, XPointer, and XML: A Practical Guide to Web Hyperlinking and Transclusion."
I think it is sold out at amazon. I bought it at
alibris. If you do not find it there, you may look at:
Used Books, Rare, Antiquarian, Second-Hand, and Out-of-print Books
Since you are working on implementing RSS (XML) on your sites, that may be the next natural step to study. You may get ideas in that book to develope functionality that keep visitors on your site. Insn't that one of the reasons you and I participate on this forum?
Did you view the video in the first post? If not, take the time to watch it when you have time. If you like it, you may also like that book.
There is always a discussion (and most often a disagreement) about who invented a concept. No exception with
fractals. May be
Ralph Nelson Elliott foresaw it with his masterwork,
Nature's Law -- The Secret of the Universe (1946).
Much more than we are aware of has fractal strucure.
If I am correct that knowledge also has fractal structure, I wish Nelson and Google good luck with their project.
Popular definition of random:
If enough monkeys wrote on a wordprocessor long enough, one of them would by chance produce "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" 