Abstract

In human activities, it is required to collect multiple different entities and activities and utilize them as one integrated business or "Ba(platform)" an ecology of rich semantics, but it is not easy to connect independent individual entities and activities and complete them as one business or one "Ba", especially under a conflict of interests/beliefs/confidences.

In this paper, the existence to be connected and the center of activity are roughly divided into nature and human beings, and the former is first tried to be articulated as a set of   “connecting” works from the viewpoint of science and technology, and the results are outlined. In old good days, people wanted to believe that we can share one unique voice based on scientific activities after such an ideal principles/guideline as CUDOS(Communalism, Universalism, Disinterestedness and Organized Skepticism articulated by Robert K. Merton).  However it is not so ideal but more dynamic with diversities driven by other incentives, for example, by PLACE(Proprietary, Local, Authoritarian and Commissioned as articulated by John Ziman).  

Next, regarding the latter, we will focus on the diverse activities of human beings that develop in economic, social, political, and cultural situations, and discuss the work of“ connecting” while evolving from the former articulation of nature with respect to rationality, integrity, repeatability, validity, correctness and other requirements.  As for human activities, it is not easy to map them into mathematics of quantitative digits and we describe them by taking advantage of different sensors and medias, namely, signals/noises, images, characters, models, social relations from binary to multinary ones with different interactions and heterogeneous clusters of love, friendship, sympathy, empathy, collaboration, solidarity and contract, scenarios, stories, histories and mythologies, capabilities, values(moneys), thoughts and concepts including “nothing and everything” categorized in different ways.

This paper is an extremely preliminary study to take on the big challenges, but in order to gain a perspective on the future digital society where consideration for environmental harmony, risk society and the spread of ICT are inevitable, “connecting” is the core for that.

I tried to extract the essential issues and challenges about the work “Connecting” to create such an ecological "Ba"(platform).

Keywords: connect, nature, human, man-made products, data, information, knowledge, value, wisdom.

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