February 3, 2005

Jakob Lodwick on tags & the mind

Christopher L. Filkins

What if we could tag not just photos, but also other tags? We could start to build a tagweb. When a tagweb is created from your tags, that tagweb works perfectly within the realm of what makes sense to you. The reason nobody came up with this before Flickr was because we didn't have Flickr as a visible reference point. You can't just imagine something out of the blue without first thinking about related things.

Read the comment thread. Jakob's idea of how metatags relate to the mind's structure relate very closely to work I did in the 80's & 90's on AI. His interlocutors are in fine form debugging his ideas. Among the bright spots is the reading list:

If you're interested, there are lots of things to read up on. I'll agree with otherthings and say that Hofstadter should be among the first on your list; "Gödel, Escher, Bach" even includes a cognitive map that you will find very familiar, and references you should find very useful.

What others haven't mentioned are philosophers like Kripke (Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language), Searle (Intentionality), and Millikan (Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories) who should yield some insight into the problem of "external knowledge" and cognition.

I might also suggest George Lakoff's Metaphors We Live By for an excellent examination of the mind and metaphor.

Posted by filchyboy at February 3, 2005 9:34 PM
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Whoah, I'm flashing back to college! I did my thesis (in philosophy of language) on metaphor, and Lakoff's book was one of my sources. Kripke was in our department but I wasn't smart enough to take his seminars. I did get a thorough dose of Wittgenstein, though, and of course Goedel, Escher, Bach was a big hit in those days (my college years were 83-86).

Funny, I didn't realize at the time I was being prepared for the web or mind mapping or folksonomies or fauxonomies or whatever it is we're all doing now.

Posted by: xian at February 4, 2005 8:59 AM

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