Owen Nieuwenhuyse wrote:

> > Possibly all of those things, in one big box called a Meaning Map.

>

> It sounds like an interpretation method, rather than a comprehensive

> storage method. You still need to store the detail.



It is not an interpretation method, that's the point!



If you store the meaning of an apple in this format:



Apple:

 1=Red

 2=Sweet

 3=Sour

 4=Hard



You will spend decades looking for it by scanning trough all such

enteries in a database. If you use the Meaning Map however:



Pixel(Apple,Red,Sweet,Sour,Hard)



You will know exactly where too look. If you want to find something

called an "Apple", for example, you will go to layer "Apple" and

oscilate trough the other dimensions until you find this apple.



The Meaning Map is a box, not a list.



> > The point is that you do not need a 4 TB database and a 600 teraflop

> > supercomputer to do it, it can run on a 286, from a floppy and still

> > have nice speed and capability.

>

> Where do you get those storage and flops estimates from?

> Efficient storage and simulation methods would cut the storage

>  requirements down quite a bit.

> If you want to store everything a person knows, you won't get it to fit on

> a standard PC.



It would fit, if it was in Meaning Map format, to a piece of paper! Not

number of enteries, the detail is in question here.



It's like a question if a 800x600 bitmap would fit a 320x200 desktop. Of

course it would, in lower resolution!



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