- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 12:46:30 +0100
- To: Roger Menday <roger.menday@uk.fujitsu.com>
- Cc: John Arwe <johnarwe@us.ibm.com>, "Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group" <public-ldp-wg@w3.org>
On 7 Jan 2014, at 18:28, Roger Menday <roger.menday@uk.fujitsu.com> wrote: >> >> On 7 Jan 2014, at 15:58, John Arwe <johnarwe@us.ibm.com> wrote: >> >>>> If you have a graph that said >>>> >>>> <#joe> a :Elephant . >>>> >>>> This would tell you quite a lot about how you can interact with <#joe> . >>> >>> Ok, I'll bite. What exactly does the rdf:type statement tell *code* about how it can interact with <#joe>? >> >> Say you have a robot that can walk around, and that knows that <#joe> is an elephant, then it will know a lot of things >> that are true of Elephants in general. IT will know that it has a trump, and that it walks around on 4 legs, that >> if it is older it has a certain size, etc... It will know that it eats, that is has good memory usually, etc. Those >> are all kinds of constraints on how the robot can interact with the elephant. For example it is quite different than how it >> would interact with <#jimmy> a cricket. With an elephant the human sized robot might have a chance to meet it head on. >> With a bacteria a cricket it might have to look in completely different places. >> > > > Like on the web, I think that the robot will be offered interaction possibilities in the form of <forms> and this is how it makes it's way around. :-D So you think children have an internal language of thought that resembles HTML somehow, and that when they want to raise their hand they POST a form to the decision module in their head to raise their hand, or something like that? I think that sounds very much like a philosophical confusion, due to using one tool too much, and to a confusion about the syntax/semantics distinction. But you are not the only one with this problem :-) Brian Cantwell Smith explains very well how computer scientists have had a lot of difficulties with this distintion over the past 40 years, in the presentation at the PhiloWeb in the Pompidou Center last year: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyxk0l_brian-cantwell-smith-the-philosophy-of-computation-meaning-mechanism-mystery_tech Henry > > Roger > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited > Hayes Park Central, Hayes End Road, Hayes, Middlesex, UB4 8FE > Registered No. 4153469 > > This e-mail and any attachments are for the sole use of addressee(s) and > may contain information which is privileged and confidential. Unauthorised > use or copying for disclosure is strictly prohibited. The fact that this > e-mail has been scanned by Trendmicro Interscan does not guarantee that > it has not been intercepted or amended nor that it is virus-free. Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
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