adjusting the direction of this blog: blogging on current neuro issues

I've been working on the Model of Meaning "ideas conglomerate" since more than seven years now. The first question I count to be part of that system of ideas I asked in summer 2000, during a more or less boring lesson on some economics subject.

Unfortunately, I picked up the issue before I became introduced into the methodology of working scientifically. So what I figured out, what I read, what I observed, perceived went into a big mix-up. Which brought me into some trouble: Since I apprehend several issues of behaviour, perception, neurology/thinking each a while before someone else published their papers on the issue -- I read about them in a popular science magazine -- I strongly believe, I am right with my course throught the complex. However, I started without sticking to scientific methods, but I figured out things. -- To gain the reputation ("credits"), I thought I should get for that work, I had to put the whole building of what I've figured out onto a new, stable, scientific foundation. But the same time, I already felt unable to differenciate between what I figured out by myself and what I learnt from any external source: What someone was telling might or might not imply what I figured out already. How to make sure, they and me meant, implied the same?

To prove, I were right, I thought the better opportunity would be to just implement the whole idea as a piece of software -- that is what you know by MOM today.

However, as I am unemployed currently, I became really distracted from the MOM project. And involved in more professional blogging. Which continuously carries along the question, how to increase one's reputation.

Now, I was reading a posting of a not so reliable popular science [kind of] blog on sleep deprivation, how it'd affect rational thinking. As sleep is a topic I touched by MOM several times, I was interested in verifying whether or not the "blog" was re-narrating correctly. As CiteSeer seems to be down, currently, I launched Google Scholar with a demand for articles of Seung-Schik Yoo for 2007. (In the hope to get the article.) However, accidentally, I found A deficit in the ability to form new human memories without sleep by the same person (co-author), published in February 2007. Which nudged me even further to my insights gained by MOM. -- As I am currently experiencing a regular visitor from Korea on this MOM blog, I thought it might be worth a shot to start just blogging about MOM -- even if I don't have any scientific reputation in that field of topic.

That's why you are reading this posting here.

The impulse was, I might gain and convince some audience, maybe even gain some reputation in this field of topic, despite not any scientific one. However, I think, it might become some fun to comment on what's going on in this area, even without any scientific degree here.

Additionally, I am interested in perception, usability, comprehensibility, everything that has anything to do with mind and memory. But one thing, I am not interested in. That is artificial intelligence. When I touched intelligence any time in the past, it was a by-product at all.

Whatever. Let's see whether or not it'd actually blog on it...

      
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Made the ancient postings accessibly by tags

Tagged the early postings of this blog to let it make provide more benefit, e.g. by enabling every reader to pick up topics by tags -- and then get all the posting on that very topic I posted here, so far.

Positive side-effect of that effort is that also for me, in future, it might become more easy for me to set up backward references to earlier posted articles and yet tackled subjects. Such as for the still under-constructional posting on obstacles of traditional notion organizing systems MOM overcomes.


      
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previous description of this blog

Today I change(d) the description of this blog. The prior one was:

The Model of Meaning is a knowledge representation approach that shall allow to skip the training phase of an artificial neural network. – I started research in this field of subject earlier, but I am very interested in collaboration with researchers of related fields like artificial intelligence, neurobiology etc. Software applications of findings of this project also would be very appreciated.

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just initiated this blog, now merging the prior ia: organizing notions here. It was described the following way

A blog upon my approach on organizing notions/concepts/ideas. As far as I know, this is a topic as well on information architecture.

where notions was exactly misleading. A wrong hint someone told me without considering the whole matter I am working on.

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[Merged from (the now removed) ia: organizing notions:] I've been working on this topic for a long time, so now I want to get it clear, reliably substantiated and prepared to get it discussed. I've taken several attempts to create a united blog for it, like knowledge, knowledge.meta and find using notions (partitially English--partitially German).

I wasn't resolutely to in fact publish it while working on it--but I am working on it yet such a long time, I am sure I cannot expect to finish it in the near future. And also, I have not anymore that lot of time to work on it as I had when I was a student. I made the mental step to be willing to let a potential employer get its hands on it (well, in fact, if the employer is a cute search engine provider), so it doesn't hurt anymore to publish it while it is not yet finished.

The place for that shall be here. Well, I'm going to rename the URL of this blog soon, but there the description of the model shall happen, and any discussion on it, too.<<

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[Merged from (the now removed) ia: organizing notions:] My studies were about information science but I never officially had contact with information architecture. Today I found a post on an information architecture blog that starts like a discussion I had a few years ago with a friend of mine.

In 2001, I started thinking about a general principle for describing concepts/ideas/notions. (In German we have the simple term "Begriff" for these three.) I'm aware about that this is a hard venture, but possibly I am on a good way.

Since the author of that blog notes that facets are (or were in 2002) a hot IA topic, i think it's a good idea to launch my own blog on this.

Hopefully, I'll get contact with some professional people who are interested in this field as well.<<

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