Comments on: End of Text: knowledge = connections! http://jurmo.us/2008/01/27/end-of-text-knowledge-connections/ About my visions and inspiration Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:45:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jurriaan Mous http://jurmo.us/2008/01/27/end-of-text-knowledge-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-8017 Jurriaan Mous Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:47:15 +0000 http://jurmo.us/2008/01/27/end-of-text-knowledge-connections/#comment-8017 Indeed, there is an interaction problem. I think whole new interfaces are needed. Text has grown out of the limitations of stone tablets to paper. I think something more dynamic could hold the answer. But it is still a search. There happens a lot in the brain. The consciousness is still unexplained territory. But how it saves information is a bit known. Extracted from how we access our memories we can learn a lot. And by saving it the same way we could maybe access it also more fluently. Indeed, there is an interaction problem. I think whole new interfaces are needed. Text has grown out of the limitations of stone tablets to paper. I think something more dynamic could hold the answer. But it is still a search.

There happens a lot in the brain. The consciousness is still unexplained territory. But how it saves information is a bit known. Extracted from how we access our memories we can learn a lot. And by saving it the same way we could maybe access it also more fluently.

]]> By: Taco Jan Osinga http://jurmo.us/2008/01/27/end-of-text-knowledge-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-8016 Taco Jan Osinga Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:09:17 +0000 http://jurmo.us/2008/01/27/end-of-text-knowledge-connections/#comment-8016 A brain stores data in neurons. In the same way, a computers stores data in small transistors. That's all about logic, both brain and computers. The only difference is that why do not completly understand how the brain works, there's still a lot we don't know. A computer is built by mankind, so we exactly know how RAM and a CPU works. With the web, we use a stringbased language. That's not because computers couldn't save that more effeciently, but because humans can read this language better than 111001010101. The computer translates into something meaningfull, using "text" to "graphic" tables (associations). I guess, the same things happen in your brain. The data is stored in neurons (equivalent of a transistor). The data on its own is not meaningfull, but can be meaningfull when using the right association tables (in this humans are still far more better than computers). And to do that each person has different association tables. Some memorize by music, some by form, some with words (text), a few with scent, etc. Computers and humans (on some aspect) work on the same way (with giant differences in performance). In theory computers with computers work great, as is with humans vs. humans. The biggest problem is: how can computers and humans interact effeciently, with all the differences. A brain stores data in neurons. In the same way, a computers stores data in small transistors. That’s all about logic, both brain and computers. The only difference is that why do not completly understand how the brain works, there’s still a lot we don’t know. A computer is built by mankind, so we exactly know how RAM and a CPU works.

With the web, we use a stringbased language. That’s not because computers couldn’t save that more effeciently, but because humans can read this language better than 111001010101. The computer translates into something meaningfull, using “text” to “graphic” tables (associations).

I guess, the same things happen in your brain. The data is stored in neurons (equivalent of a transistor). The data on its own is not meaningfull, but can be meaningfull when using the right association tables (in this humans are still far more better than computers). And to do that each person has different association tables. Some memorize by music, some by form, some with words (text), a few with scent, etc.

Computers and humans (on some aspect) work on the same way (with giant differences in performance). In theory computers with computers work great, as is with humans vs. humans. The biggest problem is: how can computers and humans interact effeciently, with all the differences.

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