Ambiguity and Ontologization presented Thursday, 2006-06-15, Sofia, Bulgaria


Ambiguity informs all of human activity, even that within the imagined exact sciences such as Mathematics. So-called “imaginary” numbers (first complex numbers, and then quaternions, to the cognoscendi), the stumbling block for most of the young, was and is ontological stumbling. These numbers are natural for dancing (of people on earth or satellites in space), a three-dimensional body movement in “normal” 3-D space. This is Mathematics at play. From the point of view of play as culture progenitor, all of which is intrinsically ambiguous, it would appear natural that any ontological mirroring must also be fruitfully ambiguous. To ontologize is to be human, to act in a humanitarian way. It is only in the last forty years or so that we have adjoined the mechanical precision of the computer to (re-)inforce the precise logical understanding of humanity through ontology. We have seen the past. It is known. The future, embracing what has been, dictates a logical computable view of all subsequent ontologization, as long such a machine-era shall last. Within the reality of this framework ontological choice is computably pre-determined. The real choice is therefore, sociological and psychological, and perhaps even strictly cultural. The paper focuses on the attempt to formalize ambiguity.

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