Oh, god, we're entering into the world of quantum XML!!

Overall, however, I'm not sure this is the most accurate conceptual
metaphor. I'm much more inclined to see various potentially overlapping
models as being frames of reference in describing reality, in essence more
of a relativistic approach, with transformations acting as tensors mapping
completely or incompletely between these frames of reference.

The problem with contemporary computational semantics (RDF et al) is that
assertions are binary - there is absolutely nothing in RDF that can be used
to view assertions in a stochastic or fuzzy manner, which is one of the
fundamental characteristics of quantum systems. You can make a reasonably
strong case for being able to make logical inferences with RDF - this was
what it grew out of, of course. However, there's no formal mechanism in RDF
as it stands right now to be able to say "the probability or strength of
assertion X is 0.75". That's not to say that this couldn't be introduced,
mind you, and I'm not so sure that it's necessarily a bad idea, though the
processing becomes considerably more complex at that point once you do make
that step.

Kurt Cagle
Managing Editor
http://xmlToday.org


On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Len Bullard <cbullard@h...> wrote:

> The concept analogizes semantic coherence to interferometric visibility and
> semantic intensity to intent of communicative speech act as expressed in
> the
> syntax.
>
> Treat the name and label particles like wave functions where each element
> has intensity.
>
> What would the coherence/decoherence properties of RDF be contrasted to
> HTML?  I think the coherence length of RDF statements would be better
> because they are unentangled until related.
>
> len
>
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