More about Clique Space(TM) as a Nervous System

In my previous posting, inspired by an abstract I read of an article, I decided to comment about how Clique Space could be looked at as a type of nervous system.

The article I alluded to in the previous posting was published late 2005 by Longnian Lin, Remus Osan and Joe Z. Tsien called "Organizing principles of real-time memory encoding: neural clique assemblies and universal neural codes". It can be found here.

Now, I thought the publication could have been related to my concept, but I didn't actually check this out until nine days ago when I decided to read the article. I was surprised to find that the phenomenon disclosed in the article (viz how neurons band together in "Cliques" to perform some memory encoding function) was a significant part of what I had conceived on my jog between Bellambi and Bulli in 2004.

The authors of this article discuss how this phenomenon relates to how we might remember things, but I see nothing in what I have read about the phenomenon (one article) to say that this isn't how a coordinated nervous system performs many functions. In fact, I would say that a nervous system wherein individual neurones participate in Cliques is probably the pre-eminent characteristic of a stable nervous system.

I'm not trying to pass myself off as someone who knows much. I just have a habit of thinking about this stuff because it's kind of interesting. Clique Space was thought of long before I knew of any debate on the phenomena that I might think it models. The article was very interesting in that at least it may confirm that I'm not stupid.

Clique Space(TM) as a Nervous System

Yes, I think I have it. Clique Space is a specification for a nervous system.

A Clique Space can connect, aggregate, and co-ordinate the activity state of any device that can connect to one. In this sense, it surely acts as a nervous system.

Subsequent to my coining the name "Clique Space", I discovered firstly (I've possibly been reminded) that Cliques are a term in graph theory and secondly, the actual name is used in research based on neurological behaviour.

I don't know what all these coincidences may mean to my patent or trademark.

We'll see...

Clique Space(TM) and a sustainable future.

Okay, a rant about how I believe Clique Space would help humanity in some important areas of social decay/crisis/whatever else might pique the reader's interest...

Firstly, without a doubt, I believe this Clique Space concept will help society lift non-metropolitan communities out of poverty. Clique Space was born of my frustrations at the pig-headed nature of management practise to physically collocate. There may have been a time when the work that needed to be done required the labour resources to come together to do it, and I wouldn't try to doubt that in many occupations, this is still very much the case. But physical collocation is less of a concern, and more of an appeal to the status-quo in a post-industrial society. The factory floor is an anachronism that clings to work management practises, like a drunkard to a light post.

Clique Space will let a company (with individual consent) coordinate work in a highly flexible way that combines the capabilities of multiple media with role-based and individual behaviour preferences. All of this behaviour is controlled ultimately by the individual who logs on to a Clique Space system through the one or more devices they possess.

A person who has access to a Clique Space, and can connect any media to it can communicate a virtual presence to anyone else so connected. This presents the practicality of virtual offices and workplaces to management in a way so that they receive all the information they may ever need about their labour force extracted and distilled from the noise and distraction of an office or factory floor.

The individual employee doesn't have to travel to an office. The individual needn't have to consider relocation. The individual needn't have to weigh up a life of displacement against one of poverty. The individual is earning the same type of money that their highly skilled city-brethren might have without having to leave their rural or remote home community.

The community benefits because this individual who is earning the same type of money as their city-dwelling colleagues is spending their money in their home community. This money circulates in their home community, and brings prosperity, and a reason for others to stay in the community they have selected as their home.

Hence, Clique Space would provide a way for rural and remote sustainability, and would act as a facility through which members of any community would exercise their discretion when connecting to a global one.

Mountebanks and their Claques' Cliques.

A book titled Explaining Hitler by Ron Rosenbaum has introduced two new words to me: mountebank and claque; the second of these words being merely a coincidental fit with the concept of a Clique. I knew neither of these two words nor their association in Rosenbaum's book before I picked it up and read it.

Saying that, I'm probably a bit, unfortunately, of a claqueless mountebank. I have a few supporters for my idea, but sensing yet no one so bold as to be counted a member of the claque that I lack. Maybe others are waiting for this claque to materialise before they join.

Witnessing the phenomenon of mountebanks and their claques in many of my exchanges on email groups, the concern that I lack one of these appears a considerable obstacle to the promotion of Clique Space(TM). Saying that, I think it is only a concern to me insofar as I currently have less than 11.5 months to garner a well-moneyed claque before the PCT lapses.

In regard to lapsing PCT's, one cannot commit too much emotion to this process; the tax to one's sanity would otherwise be too great. I have done my best, and if no one likes my idea (I accept the possibility that my idea might be crap, but am yet to accept the substance of that possibility itself) I will have to be philosophical about this outcome. The idea that I need to spend 150 thousand dollars to secure national phase patent applications is unattainable by me as an individual. Maybe, also, my idea might be too abstract to be sufficiently enforceable, but I doubt this one currently as I still have not seen another make an adversarial move which might indicate this possibility.

I believe society will embrace Clique Space, or a similar idea that empowers individuals with the facility to control their virtual presence and collect activity logs of their interactions with any other individual over any electronic medium capable of being represented in any number of Clique Spaces. Whether or not society responds to this embracing inevitability in time for me to see a consideration for it will be decided by others.

Somewhat unsurprisingly...

I'm going to have to give the uni avenue up, at least for Spring session.

I had a talk the University's Director of Corporate Relations because I was given his contact details as someone who had industry contacts. On 13 July, he sent a message to the Informatics Faculty's Manager of Innovation and Commercialisation (someone with whom I already had contact with earlier) who didn't get round to contacting me directly until I called him on Tuesday 28 July.

I don't think there'll be enough time for me now to talk about equitable terms to share Clique Space with the University before 8 August, the time by which I need to enrol for Spring session. Hence, I'm going to give up again. House of mirrors.

Maybe next session... maybe never. If someone doesn't help me properly by 15 July 2010 Clique Space (now an internationally recognised prior art) goes begging.

We'll all see what happens here...

Owen.

The First Media Profile

Media Profiles are a central component to my implementation of the Clique Space(TM - can't do that too often) concept.

Any device that wants to talk to a Clique Space must connect to it through a suitable Media Profile, a customisation of the elements that Clique Space uses to represent various physical and conceptual artefacts in the world that it models. The first Media Profile that I am crafting will model the Clique Space implementation itself so a Clique Space system can model the cooperation of its own component devices. Without casting disrespect to Americans, I hesitate to use an American cliché. Alas, no other phrase seems appropriate for this context: This is very neat.

I might be a bit of a smarty pants.

The possibility of business startup support at uni.

Spring session at my local uni begins in two Monday's time. I think I've done two subjects toward a coursework postgraduate degree. I'm not too hot on progressing this coursework degree because I think I have jumped over, round, and through enough obstacles now. I think that I might want to do research on something that interests me. Even though one has tried to appeal to various academics at the uni for supervision in a research-based degree where Clique Space(TM) was the topic, none have offered to be a supervisor.

I have become aware of the possibility, if I were to re-enrol in my coursework masters, of attracting some access to business start-up resources offered through the university. Hence, I think I might take one subject next session. As a coursework student, the work that I'll be doing is only going to drain time that I'll need to work on Clique Space, so I don't find this idea of coursework to be very attractive.

Hence, the only reason I am considering re-enrolment is to get access to these promised business development resources. If this access doesn't materialise, I'll see no reason in being a student in a coursework degree.