loci, the plural of locus, the dimension of alternatives

Some discussion last night with Norm on 5-tuple space.

3-tuple: subject, relation, object
4th dimension: time
5th dimension: loci
6th dimention: 2-time?

(2-time is the dimention of intention, but lets not go there now. I've mentioned it here only for completeness.)

Loci is, in Norm's words, context. Well, everything is context so a bit more needs to be said.

Think of loci as branches in CVS or SVN. Think of it as the dimension of alternatives. And an enabler of hypothetical processing.

Consider you create a wiki page with a bunch of references. What is the minimal set of classifiers needed to best resolve those references? Sounds tractable to a genetic process, mm?

With a 5-tuple database, you should be able to get a journal listing for a given rolon across all loci. Sounds like a great way to do a branch comparison or merge hmm?

Now of course you may want to list a selected set of loci on a Wiki page. And of course that same page, for different loci, may list different loci. Not helpful?

Any given activity/transaction/JournalSection is applied to a single loci, so you should be able to list the loci where a rolon has participating JSecs. Better?

Just like a branch (it is a branch!), a locus is created at a given time from another locus. Asexual reproduction. Once a locus is born, it is an individual and will have its own history (Journal).

A non-conflicting merge of two loci occurs when there are no rolons with JSecs which participate in both loci. Sexual compatibility. A merge then produces a new loci. Sexual reproduction.

It will be a while until I'm ready for this. :-)

Bill