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2.4

 ---- Configuration

 

To enable our "digital camera" to work, we will set a configuration such that pictures can be taken in a defined frame.

 

There is of course a large diversity of possible configurations and we choose one that corresponds to the field experience that we exposed in the previous section.

The objects and actors clusters will be represented by labels and we will use squares to figure out time-periods in which actions can be recorded.

The border of the space will be a limit over which nothing can be recorded. Anything that we can observe - existing or imaginary - will so be embedded within a closed observation space.

The relative location of the component will remain at the observer convenience for eventual sense making. The only restrictions will be that the geometrical overlaps - say signs crossing and tangent - and items inheritances will not be accepted. The advantages of those two restrictions will appear in later sections.

 

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Parallelisms : Management - Mechanics - Physics - Astrophysics - Quantum mechanics - Programming language - Holotomography


Management

The concept of a closed space to project observation mapping is not new neither difficult to capture.

As already mentioned at the page 2.2, Stephen Covey - in his book "The Seven Habits of Effective People" - proposes to represent your world by two concentric circles where everything you can effectively influence will be recorded inside the central circle while everything that you can not influence will be set in between the two circles. This is a close space where you can set any observation and information that you would own about the world.


Mechanics - Physics - Astrophysics

The spacetime - as initially presented by Einstein - was also a closed space.

The idea is in a sense to say that the universe must be a whole, in so included the time. Hence it must a close space that embeds bodies (see coordinates x,y,z) and the time (t) so the spacetime being define by (x, y, z, t).

Concepts like the big bang and the relativity of Einstein are consequences of this assumption of a closed - hence curved- space (Einstein is quoted to have joked that if we could see very far in the future, we would see our bag).

However our motivations to work within a closed space are only related at creating an observation space - and not at providing a model of physical phenomena - one can anticipate that our decision to also utilize a close space will naturally infer parallelisms with questions that are investigated in physics and associated disciplines.

Worth is to shortly remind some of those questions because they will be encountered as a consequence of the similar initiating visions so that several parallelisms that have been mentioned in the previous section are not strange coincidences but will be better enlighten as in relationship with our choice of handling our records within closed spaces.

In example, we can mention that one of the difficulty of physicists - say also astrophysicists - has been that when you consider that a closed space is embedding the universe and owns a constant volume, the problem of solving the "equations" of the universe will in some sort resume alike finding how to enter like an infinite time-wire within a finite space - only because the time unfold itself continuously and never will "cross twice the same place".

This is one of the reasons why mathematics paid attention at the development of unusual concepts that may respond at this strange requirement of infinity within "finity" - i.e. concepts like what they named manifolds of which one of the most popularly renown is the Möbius strip, or other novel mathematical species like the Mandelbrot fractals which are said to come at studying economic systems where uncertainty cumulates without resuming within classically distributed variances. 

If we already mention the recognition of some self-similarity potentials - see the parallelisms of the page 1.5 - it is because this noticeable properties has been famously highlighted by the Mandelbrot fractals. This observation is so possibly indicating a link with already known underlying systemic characteristics that are related with a closed space representation.


Quantum mechanics - Programming language

As presented in the previous comments, the configuration we choose induces a fair amount of similitude with previously investigated problems - i.e. in mechanics and in physics.

The next page will show that this choice also complies with fundamental characteristics of contemporary programming languages - i.e. like in object oriented programming.

Those approaches usually infer interconnections and inheritances between system components and agents - i.e. state properties in physics and inherited classes in object oriented programming. 

Our concern has been that those options frequently lead to high degrees of complexity and/or to methods that hardly infer operational results.

As we owned the advantage not be linked at physical observation or postulated constrains but that we remain at playing with only geometrical properties in an observation space, we utilized this position to freely adopt convenient choices that lead to an operational simplicity at providing the ability to represent any situation.

Diverse options have been investigated and - at the opposite of the above mentioned domains - the choice of "no overlap and no inheritance" has been retained because of the great simplifications it inferred further on.

We will first exemplified the application of this "no overlap and no inheritance" choice and next we will anticipatively explain the resulting simplifications that we have recognized.

The "no overlap" rule means that no label can overlap neither any line crosses any other like shown in the adjacent figure that illustrates permitted and non permitted instances.

"No inheritance" means that any label - even resulting of labels combining - is an individualized label and that a label or a cluster within a cluster does is not with filiations to the surrounding but only geometrically included - say it may move out as a free individualized entity.

To illustrate the difference with physics, say that an electron is known to have a spin and that a spin may take the value of +1/2 and -1/2.

In physics, all those are properties that are linked to an electron while with us an electron, a spin, a value of +1/2 and of -1/2 are separated and individualized properties as well as an "an electron having a spin", "an electron having a spin of +1/2" and an "electron having a spin of -1/2" are also three independent and individualized entities.

Noticeable also that in physics, because the time is seen unfolding continuously, a period of time follows a previous one and precedes a next one. In here, any period of time is also seen as an individualized and independent entity.

Our conventions may looks to possibly infer non necessary complexities because we intuitively feel like we will need to handle and display an enormous number of entities collections. In practice we won't and we will see that it is mainly an conventional artifact that allows us to build a method which ends with very accessible tools where this feeling of possible complexity become irrelevant.

In particular, those conventions will lead at the fact that our manifold of reference will not be obliged to own a high complexity because the above conventions will allow the usage of the surface of a sphere.

From there, we will mainly make usage of the known properties of this surface so that an explicit care at our conventions will rarely be needed. The sphere and our conventions being equivalent, we will only utilized the more convenient which in the case we investigated has been the geometrical format.


Holotomography

Noticeable is that with our conventions, a "multiple holotomy" - says an holotomy embedding several item-clusters - can always be grouped into a "single holotomy" - say an holotomy with only one item cluster.

Conversely, a "single holotomy" may always be associated with other "single or multiple holotomies" within a "multiple holotomy".

This says in short that an holotomy is always a "whole" and can also always be a part of a "whole".

We mention that the above reminds the notion of "holon" that is known in philosophy - Wikipedia: "a holon is a system that is a whole in itself as well as a part of a larger system".