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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Object oriented model reprise
  • Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 01:10:54 -0700

Stephanie Gerson wrote:
whoa. Not sure if I completely understand what yalls are discussing here, but it sounds like your mimicking my vision for the front-end (webs of webs, relationships of relationships) with the backend. Beautiful. Of course, rewinding all the way, we are ultimately mimicking the ecological webs themselves...

How close can a piece of software come to being a tool for discovering the
intricacies of the universe,
the infiniteness of relationships of things within the universe, a computer
model of the universe
that can unfold to reveal through its window, secrets and insights, truly
mimicing and mirroring Nature itself,

Anyhows, I like what Lawrence wrote:
"Maybe this is a matter of orchestrating, coordinating massive amounts of table lookups with one result of this process being that seemingly unrelated information can be viewed by a user wishing to discover new and possibly previously hidden relationships between things. Maybe you would have tables of tables as with columns of attributes-as-other-tables."

Imagine! A database that not only allows you to learn about relationships, but discover ones that you (and others) didn't even know existed! Discovering the infinite interconnectedness between everything...ok I am starting to sound like Dr. Brauner's but you dig it, ya?

There you go. That's it. A tool for discovery. Actually, it occurs to me that this may be one of the most interesting and potentially useful aspects of the DB.

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