scott@bgsuvax.UUCP (Thomas Scott) (09/26/84)
I've been practicing Transcendental Meditation for twelve years. The quality of self-reference is interesting because it points to the unmanifest area of the Transcendental Absolute. When a science has reached the point of being able to express and theorize about itself and to have the quality of self-reference, then it has reached a point of maturity that does justice to Pure Consciousness. Anyone interested in the understanding and experience of self- reference and its role in modern science can contact the local TM Center. Look in the phone book under "Transcendental Meditation." And while you're thinking about that, why don't you look into Kant's <<Critique of Pure Reason>> for the absolute foundations of knowledge engineering? Teknowledge has a very nice expert-system-building tool, S1, which follows the Kantian organization of mind. This architecture also follows Nils Nilsson's three-part production system as presented in his <<Principles of Artificial Intelligence>>. Consider this: Kant S1 Nilsson ---- -- ------- sensibility factual knowledge global database understanding judgmental knowledge rules reason procedural knowledge control strategies We are children of the cybernetic revolution and we are witnessing the rising sunshine of the Age of Enlightenment.