DECREASING THE INFORMATIONAL ENTROPY THROUGH KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION

Abstract

Drawing on the efforts, initially mentioned within the "ENHANCING E-LEARNING THROUGH USING STUDENTS' VIRTUAL CLONES" pre-sented during the 2014 eLSE Conference, this paper plunges into the actual mechanisms of cognitive clone generation. Cognitive sciences are either (1) theoretical constructions meant to secure the knowledge acquisition, or (2) collections of knowledge criteria and conditions meant to objectivize it. In order to reach out and grasp the rational structure in things, their unity and definition, we should be able to express an inner thought by generating a "matter- form"-tuple in voce. The traditional approach to knowledge management - (a) knowledge acqui-sition, (b) knowledge building, and (c) meaning extraction - implies its under-standing as a hermeneutical method heavily employed by an alert cognizant able to gain an objective and gradual understanding in experiencing the reality. Our intuition says that a subject carrying knowledge management capabilities is actually immersed within a field of morphing logical forms. The knowledge is (i) a field since it could encompasses reality & possibility-wide events; it is (ii) morphing since it is acting internally (i.e. morphing) upon each cognizant sub-ject's knowledge, and it is (iii) of logical forms since its combined perception - thinking is solidified into notions (i.e. logical forms). In our view, (a) knowledge acquisition is, above all, a continuous interpreta-tion over the real and/or possible situations - finalized into logical forms to which individuals are exposed during their experiences, while (b) knowledge building reflects its incremental accumulation, either due to the actual evolution of the supporting events, or due to the cognizant' intended actions; while (c) meaning extraction refers to the identification of subjective relationships between logical forms (existing knowledge within an ontology) and the actual acquired knowledge by the cognizant individuals. Briefly, the proposed approach is based on this ancient reality's intrinsic structure made out of: (i) matter (characterized as global and unique) and (ii) forms (hierarchically organized and saturating the matter). Logical forms, acting as perceptual masks for our understanding, transfigure the matter. Therefore, our quest for knowledge acquisition and understanding should start by chasing the logical forms the ontic entities are subjected to. In fact, these logical forms wrap up the reality, altering, in a subject-specific manner, the knowledge repository within all related cognizant subjects. For such a subject, understanding is a process governed by repeatedly acquiring logical forms over the same event and by checking upon necessary mappings between the every-time-acquired knowledge and the constantly evolving corresponding notion (representing the process of cognitive logical forms' generation),. A new perspective is envisioned and under scrutiny over the way that science and engineering tackle the reality, our approach intending to reproduce the human knowledge acquisition process. Reaching out and grasping the rational structure in things is nothing else than identifying the logical forms within the things, representing a process of embedding notions and their descriptions into individuals' knowledge repositories.