Digitong Information Architecture Language

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Digitong Information Architecture Language
Digitong Intentions

• By Pierre Lévy
• Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence
• University of Ottawa

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Ideograms and their names
Digitong Ideograms

• Digitong ideograms have a larger semantic
  extension than ordinary words of natural
  languages.
• Their names refer to this larger semantic
  extension and not to the extension of ordinary
  english words.
• The double types indicate the essence of their
  archetypes. For example, the essence of the time
  archetype ( ) is change ( ).

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Use of ideograms
Digitong Ideograms

• Digitong ideograms are used to
• Represent in standard digicode sequences the
  semantic composition of digitong objects (memes,
  arches, semes, moments and episteme).
• Represent the semantic switches of the ideas
  intelligent 3D agents performing semantic
  functions.

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Semantic Switch Functions
Digitong Ideograms
Semantic switches

• A Digitong idea is an evolutionary analog
  semantic processor.
• The main operators of this processor are
• the semantic switches
• the ideas memory
• Semantic switches perform collaboratively in
  sorting functions according to their operational
  volume, set by their ideas seme.
• Semantic switches read middlecodes of objects and
  sense their volume.
• They attract memes to the idea.
• Handled by a virtual community, they extract the
  memes information in order to transform it into
  action.
• They send the memes produced by their idea.

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Reminder
Digitong Ideograms

• Digitong Ideograms are not rigid categories but
  semantic qualities.
• The semantic volume of Digitong Ideograms can be
  modulated.
• Digitong ideograms are combined to express the
  semantic addresses of documents, transactions,
  messages, actions and so on.

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Digitong Intentions
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ideograms
Digitong intentions
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Digitong Intentions
Intention ideograms
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Intention archetypes
Digitong Intentions
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World
Time
Space
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Society
Truth
Thought
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Feelings
Body
Message
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Intention Icons
Digitong Intentions
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space
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society
thought
truth
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The being transfers its information to the thing
through the intention channel. Human beings wish
to inhabit their physical environments. They
expect to work using tools, to name objects and
to give value to events. Humanitys
self-creation rhymes with the intention to create
a meaningful cosmosa world.
Digitong Intentions
WORLD
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The sign transfers its information to the thing
through the intention channel. Human beings
record and register. Without inscription there
would be no memory, and without memory, the
notion of time would be unthinkable. Cultural
memory is a condition of cultural evolution this
archetype manifests an intention of duration.
From time emerges a past, a future, and a present
linking them both.
Digitong Intentions
TIME
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The thing transfers its information to another
thing through the intention channel. Physical
space is made of relationships between things
the reciprocal enclosure of objects create
topological space. Intentions to fold and
unfold, to connect and disconnect, to limit and
extend, create human space.
Digitong Intentions
space
SPACE
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The being transfers its information to the sign
through the intention channel. We bind ourselves
with promises and contracts. We obey laws we
recognize a totemic animal as our common
ancestor we fight under a common flag we
exchange economic goods by giving them an
exchange-value within some conventional
systemsuch social obligations and conventions
share a common goal they build society.
Digitong Intentions
SOCIETY
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The sign transfers its information to another
through the intention channel. Signs follow each
other and generate new signs during the thinking
process deduction, induction, interpretation,
imagination Thinking, the movement of sign
structures, is directed by the intention to
create and discover freely.
Digitong Intentions
thought
THOUGHT
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The thing transfers its information to the sign
through the intention channel. A discursive
message is true if it contains a correct
description (the sign contains the thing). In
a logical sense, truth only matters for
descriptive messages. In a pragmatic sense,
music, emotions, images, fictions and questions
may contain a certain form of truth. Truth
must be pursued intentionally in order to be
achieved.
Digitong Intentions
truth
TRUTH
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The being transfers its information to another
being through the intention channel. Desire,
love, hate, indifference, compassion and
equanimity are all intentions exchanged between
beings. Emotions and feelings, whatever their
quality may be, constitute the energy that binds
human relations.
Digitong Intentions
feeling
FEELINGS
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The sign transfers its information to the being
through the intention channel. A being receives
and recognizes a collection of signs. Each event
can act as a sign and each succession of events
can function as a message. Communication starts
with the intention of opening oneself up to the
meaning of signs.
Digitong Intentions
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message
MESSAGE
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The thing transfers its information to the being
through the intention channel. Eating and
drinking are the most obvious modes of
information transfer from thing to being. Having
a body forces us to acquire and maintain a
connection to the physical world. Embodiment also
implies anticipation of suffering and desire to
avoid it. Birth, growth, sickness, health, and
death are associated with the body.
Digitong Intentions
body
BODY
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Philosophical Correspondences (1)
Digitong Intentions
Intention archetypes

• Many philosophical schools have considered as
  axiomatic one or more of the nine Digitong
  intentions archetypes
• Nietzsche (who assigned a central role to the
  creation of values) and anthropology both found
  their approach on the world function.
• Bergson and, with him, the evolutionists or,
  similarly, the philosophies of impermanence and
  karma (such as Buddhism) underline the passage
  and effect of time.
• Geometers, topologists, atomists, materialists
  and physicists base their work on the space
  function.
• Rousseau, Comte, Marx, Durkheim, Mauss, Weber,
  and sociology base their approach on the
  society function.

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Philosophical Correspondences (2)
Digitong Intentions
Intention archetypes

• The Western idealist tradition (Plato, Hegel,
  etc.) and also an important portion of the
  great Indian meditative philosophies use the
  thought function as their base.
• Logical traditions and analytical philosophy are
  essentially interested in the truth function
  and problems of reference. Epistemology and
  cognitive sciences try to resolve the problem of
  true knowledge.
• Freud and much of clinical psychology, as well as
  poets and actors, insist on the importance of
  emotions, therefore starting with the feelings
  function.
• The philosophies of language and communication
  focus on the message function. Wittgenstein
  built his philosophy around the limits of
  language.
• The empirical, phenomenological, and biological
  traditions all base their ontologies in the
  body function.

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Digitong P2P ontology
Digitong Intentions
Intentions archetypes

• Each philosophy only explore some dimensions of
  semantic space. Digitongs semantic space
  embraces all of them.
• Digitong adopts a non-centralised semantic
  structure which is intrinsically peer-to-peer, or
  hypertextual.
• No archetype is an absolute foundation, origin,
  or endpoint for the others
• The relationships between archetypes are on a
  equal basis
• The archetypes are interconnected and
  interdependent.

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types
Digitong Intentions
Intention types
 Humanity  cluster
Architecture
Humanity
Calendar
Science
Justice
Meditation
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Danse
Poetry
Wisdom
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Time types
Digitong Intentions
Intention types
 Change  cluster
Progress
Travels
Change
Learning
History
Creation
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Maturing
Promise
Memory
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Space types
Digitong Intentions
Intention types
 Complexity  cluster
Complexity
Cosmos
Harmony
Vastness
Institution
Order
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Organization
Transmission
Generosity
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Faire société
Digitong Intentions
Intention types
 Peace  cluster
Territory
Religion
Tradition
Collective Intelligence
Confidence
Peace
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Ritual
Communication
Sympathy
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Faire pensée
Digitong Intentions
Intention types
 Mindfulness  cluster
Exploration
Culture
Forecasting
Reasoning
Government
Mindfulness
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Imagination
Interpretation
Disponibiliy
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Faire vérité
Digitong Intentions
Intention types
 Inquiry  cluster
Orientation
Assessment
Opportunity
Inquiry
Honesty
Humility
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Attention
Clarity
Sincerity
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Faire sentiment
Digitong Intentions
Intention types
 Love  cluster
Liberty
Faith
Hope
Intuition
Friendship
Compassion
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Enjoyment
Beauty
Love
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Digitong Intentions
Intention types
 Language  cluster
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Composition
Style
Narrative
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Description
Persuasion
Inspiration
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Gesture
Language
Expression
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corps
Digitong Intentions
Intention types
 Life  cluster
Inhabiting
Taste
Rythm
Experience
Collaboration
Embodiment
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Living
Body language
Seduction
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Digitong mandala of intentions
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