    # 1999/7/28

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    # Tabula Rasa #
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    Ayn Rand, "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution", page 190

    	At birth, a child's mind is tabula rasa; he has the
    	potential of awareness -- the mechanism of a human
    	consciousness -- but no content.  Speaking metaphorically,
    	he has a camera with an extremely sensitive, unexposed
    	film (his conscious mind), and an extremely complex
    	computer waiting to be programmed (his subconscious).
    	Both are blank.

    Knowledge Explorer provides an initital knowledge unit,

    	at view = tabula_rasa

    ready to receive new knowledge.  It is "blank", but contains the
    concepts which characterize the mechanism of a human consciousness

    	existent, entity, characteristic, proposition,
    	action, causality,
    	consciousness, volition,
    	knowledge, integrate, differentiate,
    	space, time, view

    and the grammatical relationships of the knowledge representation
    language, KR.  For example:

    	at, with, from, to,
    	either, or, all, and, not,
    	is, has, do, isin, haspart,
    	changes, causes, means,
    	if, then, else, fi,
    	every, do, done

    As a concession to practical efficiency, the tabula_rasa view
    includes some commonly used concepts, e.g.,

    	animal, plant, object,
    	man (person), purpose,
    	live, move, birth, death,
    	number

    and some less common concepts used by Knowledge Explorer, e.g.,

    	identify, perceive, classify, measure,
    	enumeration, requisite, sequence, set,
    	hierarchy, lattice, group,
    	file

Here's the final tabula rasa hierarchy.

    The tabula_rasa view is augmented with a knowledge of the attributes
    and actions of Knowledge Explorer.

Here's the description of Knowledge Explorer and its attributes and actions.