This project is extremely ambitious, spanning the full breadth of deep intuition and modern mathematics and science.

That is a vast span, and attempting to bridge it -- or even talking about this attempt -- is for good reason likely to prompt immediate skepticism or even ridicule. Indeed, defined in this way, the project may be impossible.

But here in this online context, with a vast ocean of data available with instant high-bandwidth access, including billions of references through Google, with a vast pool of graphic images from everywhere, and the astonishing depth and breadth of Wikipedia -- it seems this undertaking begins to be feasible.

We see the potential -- and we see the value of the effort. We think this is feasible -- and very likely essential to human welfare over the long term. Yes, this is hard, and mind-blowing and very over-loading and difficult to the point of impossible to hold together in one mere puny human brain.

But take it one step at a time -- one item at a time, one facet of the large fuzzy vision at a time -- and the project begins to look more likely.

And that's what we are doing,

Yes, we bounce around in a kind of random free-association way, finding things that seem interesting and helpful and illuminating, and tacking them into the project somewhere.

But a picture is forming. We are beginning to see the outlines. Yes, it is overwhelming and iffy at best, but the core principles are getting simpler and clearer, and we are beginning to trust the guidance of the Closed Loop idea.

So as the project grows, we ask "how does this particular idea fit in?" "How does this idea serve the project?"

• How does this idea serve the clarification or simplification of science?
• How does this idea sere our broad humanitarian ideals?
• How is this idea an "essential piece of the puzzle"?

Our database framework vastly expands our "cognitive bandwidth"

• Cognitive bandwidth
• Simultaneity -- "everything at once"

Sun, May 9, 2021

A database management system could be described as a file processing system that creates and administers data and or objects as information for the purpose of access and storage in a convenient way. Many types of programs have been written to add and extract information from files. A key objective of a DBMS is to maintain data integrity. Or it is also defined as a list that is kept written or typed on paper, in a computer spreadsheet or word processing document. This type of database, called a flat-file, consists of one table with rows and columns of data. For example, a simple database for a small business might contain only two columns, product name, or brand, and price. If a customer calls to ask about pricing, the store employee scans down the first column to find the product and then looks at the associated price column to answer the customer's question.

Further, A database model is used to determine what the structure of a database might look like. It portrays how the information will relate to each other, how it will be stored, organized, and manipulated.

So, the major purpose of a database is to provide the information system (in its broadest sense) that utilizes it with the information the system needs according to its own requirements. A certain broad set of requirements refines this general goal. These database requirements translate to requirements for the respective DBMS, to allow conveniently building a proper database for the given application. If this goal is met by a DBMS, then the designers and builders of the specific database can concentrate on the application's aspects, and not deal with building and maintaining the underlying DBMS. Also, since a DBMS is complex and expensive to build and maintain, it is not economical to build such a new tool (DBMS) for every application. Rather it is desired to provide a flexible tool for handling databases for as many as possible given applications, i.e., a general-purpose DBMS.

A database can simply be a list that is kept written or typed on paper, in a computer spreadsheet or word processing document. This type of database, called a flat-file, consists of one table with rows and columns of data. For example, a simple database for a small business might contain only two columns, product name, or brand, and price. If a customer calls to ask about pricing, the store employee scans down the first column to find the product and then looks at the associated price column to answer the customer's question. Most computerized databases are considered relational databases and are created using structured query language generally referred to as SQL. This type of database uses multiple tables of data that are related and ties them together with keys - a common identifying code. For example, a department code might serve as a key that ties department information and product tables together. These types of databases prevent multiple entries of the same data, provide fast sorting and various reporting opportunities

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-purpose-of-a-database