The Semantic Web, circa 2008

A look @

http://Wikipedia.Cognition.Com

Can you name an encyclopedia that starts with a W?

Who is the cowboy in Washington?

If Bush were killed, who would be president?

Where is Paris?

Is there any country to the north of America?

You only get one life

What to do with it?

1975: I lost the microcomputer revolution

1985 (-1): I lost the GUI revolution

1995: I lost the web revolution

2005: I lost the Web 2.0 revolution

~2015: the semantic revolution

The meaning of meaning

Comes from connotation transfers and analogy-making

Dynamic, fluid, objects Bottom-up AND Top-Down at the same time Perception and high-level cognition intertwined

EITHER experience creates meaning OR analogies create meaning

One last query...

What is the ultimate fate of a human being?

You only get one life

In my life, I want to design an “insanely great” cognitive architecture