Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail Reply-To: "mountain man" From: "mountain man" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory References: Subject: Re: Knowledge and Ignorance over Time Lines: 51 Organization: self_organising_systems X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:05:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.134.237.53 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1134565511 144.134.237.53 (Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:05:11 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:05:11 EST Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:35122 "David Cressey" wrote in message news:HXPnf.2507$pF.1490@trndny08... > > "mountain man" wrote in message > news:qWKnf.20093$ea6.2082@news-server.bigpond.net.au... > >> Humans have three inner capacities: instinct, intellect and intuition >> whereas >> the environment of database theory really is only modelling the >> intellect, >> which >> is essentially machine-like in its operation. > > Could that be because we are running our databases on machines? The intellect uses the "machinery" of logic and set theory, and is thus (in theory) machine-like in the evaluation of what the intellect perceives as "logical truth". I recently read a book in which the author makes the following assertion: "The individual human mind is like a remote connection to a database. The database is human consciousness itself, of which our own cognizance is merely an individual expression, but with its roots in the common consciousness of all mankind" - Power vs. Force, The Hidden Determinants of Human Behaviour, Dr. David Hawkins, 1995. [p.34] http://www.mountainman.com.au/map_of_consciousness.htm I found this an interesting claim from a database perspective, and wonder to what degree such a database may be seen as "relational" or otherwise. -- Pete Brown IT Managers & Engineers Falls Creek Australia www.mountainman.com.au/software