Current Events > I'm "trying" to make an ontology of network communication

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I have never constructed a viable ontology before. usually the "work" amounts to me writing down relation diagrams in a notebook or something like that because I have no clue what I'm doing. I don't really know what the goal is or should be or why I am driven to do this. Maybe because it sounds big brain. They say there are basically three major stages in the history of existence, matter, life and thought. I guess an ideal me would spend time trying to conceptualize how complexity can move beyond that point, though I don't know why I decided to start with communication on message boards.

There are bits of interesting stuff if you pay attention. Like the principle that no user can reply to a topic that does not exist. If you look at users as aggregates of metadata essentially, and vessels of communication for specific subjects, there might be users who have been prevented from replying to specific domains of their own interest because there is simply no means for communicating it. This is obviously a more general problem of people not being able to realize their capacities. But if you look at something like communication noise when you think of this- that you can't reply or comment on something that doesn't exist and that virtual comment might be the most real part of you- well maybe noise from other signals takes the form of content that can't be expressed. That's just diving off into the water after thinking of one principle. I guess I should think of more.

If you know computers or philosophy you might know what I mean by ontology.

Can anyone help with this. I haven't passed the threshold where I can actually know what I"m doing so right now it's just collecting resources and taking vague notes.

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Another principle, for example, that I developed out of what a CEman said to me, is that message board communication is essentially person to world rather than person to person. I could elaborate on this but I am just writing it down so I remember.

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There's a whole field of network science, you may want to just read about it.

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COVxy posted...

There's a whole field of network science, you may want to just read about it.

Yeah lol that is totally going to be accessible to me

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@COVxy

Between information theory, math in general, computing, network science... what is the most general one? Where do I even start?

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I'm not sure if most general is what would be most helpful to you.

Graph theory seems like the fundamental language to learn, though. Underlying system described by a graph can be anything.

Like if you wanted to measure information flow through a message board, you could begin formalizing it as a graph structure.

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Thx

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