Ambient Findability

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…g and trying to resolve inconsistencies leads to more special cases and more descriptions, which in turn lead to more special cases and more descriptions, and so on. In "Ambient Findability", a book on the future of information finding, author Peter Morville calls Knowledge Representation the "quagmire" of good old-fashioned AI. There is a certain benefit to the formal representations used by the semantic web. Namely, that communication between different systems is enabled by communicating using discrete tokens. The discreteness of these tokens make the choice of token unambiguous, but does not mean that it is a perfect map of meaning. This is similar to language, which is an incomplete and imperfect representation of what is nebuluous and informal in the brain. For example, if I use the word "healthy", you can be pretty confident that I …