| January 12, 2000 | 03 00050 61 00011201 |
Douglas Hofstadter
Director
Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition
Indiana University
| Subject: | Alphabet as Knowledge Technology |
Dear Professor Hofstadter,
Here is a fresh look at using the alphabet to integrate time and information for an intelligence process, drawing support from your book Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, reviewed in 1995. Can you let me know of any supportive work on this idea in cognitive science -- can computational linguistics contribute? A big issue that seems related, is the mental process of summary that suppresses complexity and accelerates meaning drift, leading to error, which is then spread by reliance on talking and email. Using the alphabet for "intelligence" provides alignment and connects summary to detail, which reduces error. Since the alphabet is the basic knowledge technology of civilization, this seems like a big opporutnity that no one is addressing??
Thanks.
Sincerely,
Rod
Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net