NSF Cyberinf 2007 core infrastructure questions|I was talking about ontology as done by philosophers – not stating that I think that there actually is /”an ontology”/ out there, although I do think we all work with the assumption that there is “a shared world out there”, and I admit that this is is the basis of a simple “ontology”. I was taking these things for granted, and talking about the mapping of “the world” from this simple ontology into, well, the world that it presupposes, and saying the image – whatever that stuff is – is the basic infrastructure of existence that we have to work with. As questionable as all of this thinking may be, one thing should now be clear: I wasn’t talking about there being any sort of “ontology” qua ontological structure, that was any more complicated than this simple one here, and even this simple one I don’t require to have as a preordained “part of reality”, it is just an observation I happen to be making right now for a rather ad hoc purpose – namely because I want to draw attention to the simple models of computation that constitute the “theory of knowledge” – of whatever latinate designation – which underly systems like Arxana. Basically I wanted to say that implementations of these models are our shared infrastructure – now speaking in a straightforward technological language – and that we can do better by introducing a slightly perturbed extended model.