Guarded intellectual property protected at present through non-disclosure agreement.
Verbatim, about the inventor…
| You strike me as modern science’s Hildegarde of Bingen. | Serene Jones (circa 2019), President of Union Theological Seminary and author Of Call It Grace: Finding Meaning In A Fractured World |
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| I’m looking at a periodic table from another galaxy, translated into Sanskrit. | Max Borders (circa 2022), author of The Decentralist: Mission, Morality And Meaning In The Age Of Crypto |
| I like the way you think. | Mark Wagner (circa 2021), Digital Linguistic Permaculture Curator at Conscious Café |
| Of your challenge to physics, you may well be right, but I’d lose a lot of friends if I said so. | Stuart Kauffman (circa 2014), inspiring complex systems interdisciplinarian and Macarthur Fellow |
| I do believe you must be an anarchist in the vein of Feyerabend! | Steven Gimbel (circa 2020), beloved philosophy of science educator and author of Getting High Minded About Love And Haight |
| I find your perspective really interesting since you seem adept at bridging these subjects (technical, philosophical, political), but I occasionally do get lost as the level of abstraction necessary to do so (and particularly to do so without being too controversial) is extremely high. Keep at it! I for one really value your perspective (and I think a lot of other people do too) | Mike Taylor (circa 2023), co-participant in Machine Learning Street Talk community |
The base of the intellectual property (IP) currently referred to as “Content Integration Ontological Design Algorithm” is a system of complex ordinates with algorithmic parameterizations as well as natural language mappings. The 176 complex ordinates are comprised of 12 core hexordinates, 108 relational hexordinates, and 28 each of meta triordinates and tetraordinates. Characterization within the ordinate system is achieved through 40 layer identifiers, 10 join types and 12 geometric relational positions. All natural language can be mapped, or interlinked, to it through contemplation, associative computing, and everything in between.
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While “from the inside,” the innovation is an informationally rich abstraction, one way it is interpretable “from the outside” is via the poietic and geometric structures now known as OKIC.
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I first documented the ordinate system, in full, as well as an initial linguistic mapping in late 2015 during a six-week unfolding of daily pre-dawn inspiration. Tracing its origins in my intellectual development is complex, though I am inclined to point to Rene Thom’s Structural Stability and Morphogenesis, which I read around 1994, as the starting point of my earnest passion on emergence ontologies. My earliest memory of engagement with complex systems was in college a few years earlier, learning of G.E. Hutchison’s n-dimensional hypervolumes in niche theory.
The unique conceptual seed of the IP is a quasi-mystical interpretation of flux level phenomena that I documented in the early 2000’s. By quasi-mystical, I mean that despite being based in well-understood physical and cosmological phenomena it is easily mistaken for pure mysticism. Thus, what I refer to in short as my “novel view” remains a potentially controversial and as of now esoteric facet of my work, contributing to perhaps undeserved skepticism about the invention, which fulfills a long-awaited prophecy present in some cultures and traditions (this one Tibetan).
Between 2004 and 2014, I worked on staff in academia, child-reared, and navigated consecutive marriages, leaving my efforts to build on this novel view latent in my imagination.
The IP began its genesis in 2015, and latency begone! In early 2016, I distributed to just a few people a first collection of algorithmic output — figures and descriptives –of what I had started to call ONT. Fundamentals of ONT (email series) and ONT Screenshot Collection (ebook) were distributed to a limited number of people during 2016 as well.
In 2017 I left academia to be a full time researcher, creative, and naturalist. I sought funding for my ONT-inspired independent work through Templeton Foundation for “Mirror for your thoughts” digital search tool, but was not successful. I did bring to bear a self-funded – thus anemic – MVP in 2018, now known as Journey!
By 2019, I was incorporating geometry into the IP’s algorithmic parameterization, including exploring its complex geometrics and implications for mapping to other systems figuratively as well as linguistically. Again I applied for funding from Templeton Foundation. The project I unsuccessfully proposed was “Enhancing interdisciplinary capacity in subject area experts coached to engage relational meanings and contemplate partiality.”
Starting in early 2021, I was recruited to engage in volunteer collaboratives and eventually consulting work within emerging Web 3 organizations on the controversial subject of meta-ontology, presaging what is now referred to as the meta-crisis or poly-crisis.
In Feb 2022, an invitation crossed my desk which led to me participating in Future of Life Institute’s AGI World Build 2045 contest. I saw in it the opportunity to “build” proof of concept for the invention by carrying it through logically as the nature-resonant emergent source for artificial general intelligence (AGI) of the future. To begin my research into the current potential for future AGI, I first read Max Tegmark’s Life 3.0, then, Pedro Domingos’ The Master Algorithm (the last chapter being its most telling).
That’s when I realized 1) a master algorithm is what my IP is and 2) the cat is already out of the bag, so to speak. Web 3 types with their pain points around meta-ontology are not just dreaming. Mainstream machine learning types already understand that a master algorithm is possible and has the potential to disrupt everything for the better.
I have been documenting the fruits of this creative period into a collection of figures and text (Outer Kaleidoscope, Inner Compass). My focus is now on potential technical implementations. The purpose for having legal IP protections in place is so I can more openly discuss the specific configuration of the algorithm without risk of losing potential protections and security measures.
– MK McGee, May 2022; now Earthstar One, updated Dec 2024