#ontology — Public Fediverse posts

talking metaphysical and mythical... what if this (PHYSICAL HEALTH/SURVIVAL OF WORLD/HUMANS) is what that (ETERNAL LIFE) meant? Perhaps not about individuals at all, or any post-body, ghost experience of eternity, but regarding eternity versus extinction for the #world #humankind #heaven #hell #doomed af #poetry #ontology
https://rant.li/atmercurialatrant-li/everlasting-life-of-the-world

Just published: a systematic comparison of Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) with my own Conference of Difference (CoD) model.

Alexander Stepanov said Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) obscures process behind static objects. Does the same critique apply to Harman's OOO?

Does objectification hide the relational flow that actually constitutes being?

👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0360-graham-harman.htm
#Ontology #Philosophy

The #Paradigm Shift – Renovating the Dualistic Structure of Science

🏗️ Does #Science have a structural problem? 🧬

The classic science building is showing deep cracks! For centuries, the #paradigm of #dualism has permeated #ontology and #epistemology.

🎧 Listen to the new podcast episode right now in your Studio Panel!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2aWB30JYbEhGkTzK7IQmaN?si=6_P7U43eT-aQ_C2tOxNnYw

#PhilosophyOfScience #ParadigmShift #StructuralRealism #Philosophy #Podcast #philosophies_de

The #Paradigm Shift – Renovating the Dualistic Structure of Science

🏗️ Does #Science have a structural problem? 🧬

The classic science building is showing deep cracks! For centuries, the #paradigm of #dualism has permeated #ontology and #epistemology.

🎧 Listen to the new podcast episode right now in your Studio Panel!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2aWB30JYbEhGkTzK7IQmaN?si=6_P7U43eT-aQ_C2tOxNnYw

#PhilosophyOfScience #ParadigmShift #StructuralRealism #Philosophy #Podcast #philosophies_de

The #Paradigm Shift – Renovating the Dualistic Structure of Science

🏗️ Does #Science have a structural problem? 🧬

The classic science building is showing deep cracks! For centuries, the #paradigm of #dualism has permeated #ontology and #epistemology.

🎧 Listen to the new podcast episode right now in your Studio Panel!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2aWB30JYbEhGkTzK7IQmaN?si=6_P7U43eT-aQ_C2tOxNnYw

#PhilosophyOfScience #ParadigmShift #StructuralRealism #Philosophy #Podcast #philosophies_de

The #Paradigm Shift – Renovating the Dualistic Structure of Science

🏗️ Does #Science have a structural problem? 🧬

The classic science building is showing deep cracks! For centuries, the #paradigm of #dualism has permeated #ontology and #epistemology.

🎧 Listen to the new podcast episode right now in your Studio Panel!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2aWB30JYbEhGkTzK7IQmaN?si=6_P7U43eT-aQ_C2tOxNnYw

#PhilosophyOfScience #ParadigmShift #StructuralRealism #Philosophy #Podcast #philosophies_de

The #Paradigm Shift – Renovating the Dualistic Structure of Science

🏗️ Does #Science have a structural problem? 🧬

The classic science building is showing deep cracks! For centuries, the #paradigm of #dualism has permeated #ontology and #epistemology.

🎧 Listen to the new podcast episode right now in your Studio Panel!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2aWB30JYbEhGkTzK7IQmaN?si=6_P7U43eT-aQ_C2tOxNnYw

#PhilosophyOfScience #ParadigmShift #StructuralRealism #Philosophy #Podcast #philosophies_de

https://youtube.com/shorts/1VgXcJD3Cdg?feature=share

Frank Coyle breaks down why LLMs hallucinate, how it mimics human imagination, and why Neurosymbolic AI uses ontologies to keep agents grounded.

#AI #LLM #NeurosymbolicAI #Ontology #MachineLearning

The Reality of Dreams

https://johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/the-reality-of-dreams/

Hegel, le perspectivisme et la vie réflexive du monde

Hegel ne dit pas que l’esprit fabrique le monde : il dit que le monde n’apparaît pas pareil à tous les vivants. Ce qui compte, c’est la forme de vie qui rend certaines choses saillantes, pensables, discutables. L’humain, auto-conscient, vit dans une tension réflexive permanente. #Hegel #Philosophy #Perspectivism #CriticalTheory #Ontology Chez Hegel, l’idéalisme ne consiste ni à dire que la réalité est mentale, ni à…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/hegel-le-perspectivisme-et-la-vie-reflexive-du-monde/

I’ve been reading Žižek and Heidegger lately. Žižek labels himself a Communist (politics), Lacanian (method), and Heideggerian (ontology), so I asked Claude and ChatGPT how I fared.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/who-am-i?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=masto

#politics #philosphy #ontology #method #zizek #blog #video #podcast #substack #introspection #extrospection #Wittgenstein #pluralism #perspective #biography #rovelli #being #relata #relationships #philosopher

On Philosophics Blog, I consider how ontological grammar commitments confound English translations of Hegel.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/06/04/titrating-hegel/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #language #hegel #geist #ontologicalgrammar #metaphysics #spirit #mind #languageinsufficiency #translation #blog #podcast #video #ontology

I've argued that property rights are immoral. Now, I've shared a pair of posts that argue at a deeper level. This is the first:

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-fence-before-the-field

#Philosophy #substack #blog #podcast #language #ontology #criticaltheory #anarchism #politicalphilosophy #politicaleconomy #economics #locke #rousseau #propertyrights #property #privateproperty

@reiver

A quick 2 second search on file system #ontologies did not directly yield a great standard candidate, but it did return some interesting results on #SemanticFileSsystems.

Like this paper and #ontology design:

https://semantic-file-system-ontology.sourceforge.net/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324605710_The_Design_and_Development_of_a_Semantic_File_System_Ontology

David Ingram ja Jonathan Tallant uusivat äsken SEP-entryään presentismistä, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/presentism/. Sitä lukiessa huomaan välillä hymyileväni. Selitys löytynee kirjoituksen erityisen analyyttisesta ja lukijaa palvelevasta tyylistä, joka näyttää harvinaistuvan tuossakin ensyklopediassa.

Toinen kiintoisa päivitys, Christopher Molen Attention https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/attention/, edustaa pikemmin filosofian naturalisoinnin mukanaan tuomaa, sinänsä ansiokasta empiiris-tieteellisen ajantasan tavoittelua. Se ei samalla tavoin kutittele aikanaan logiikan kautta matematiikka-vammaansa kätellyttä eläkeläistä. Hyytyi myös kenties kuranteimman teeman, huomiotalouden kynnykselle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy

Laadukkaiden filosofis-tieteellisten tekstien verkkainen lukeminen on minulle vähän kuin vuolemista (whittling, carving), ja korvannee kohdallani ulkomaanmatkat, viihteen ja fantasiakirjallisuuden.

#sep #philosophy #filosofia #presentism #aika #time #ontology #metafysiikka #analytic #attention #huomio #actualism #possibilism #logic #psykologia #psychology #space #truth #cognition #science #consciousness #travel #lukeminen #kirjallisuus #vuoleminen

Your BlueSky Feed Is Porn You Didn’t Ask For Because Your Friends Are Gooners With a Severe Porn Addiction

A common complaint I see people make on Bluesky is: why am I being served so much porn or things I am not interested in? They will incorrectly believe that the algorithm is broken. It’s not broken. You didn’t know the people you knew as well as you thought you did. Porn addiction is a thing, and porn addiction is especially common with weebs. You’re seeing deranged shit because people you follow have porn addictions and are into deranged shit. So, though you may not be consuming porn, people in your network are. That activity kicks into your feeds.

The issue I have with that is that it essentially normalizes being sex pests in a space on the Internet. That sets the expectation that it is good—attractive, even—to act like that elsewhere. That expectation alienates relationships. Bluesky creates a cultural space that offers an unrealistic, bizarre representation of social relationships, which isolates and alienates the users who stay on there consuming erotica and porn like they do.

So, user repos in Bluesky have a property for likes. Bluesky’s underlying AT Protocol stores likes as first-class structured records in each user’s AT Protocol repository. In the AT Protocol lexicon, a like is an app.bsky.feed.like record type. Unlike a simple boolean flag on a post, it is its own record with a creation timestamp and a subject field that holds a strong reference to the liked record.

That strong reference is composed of an AT-URI and a CID. The AT-URI identifies the exact record in the network by DID, collection, and record key. The CID is a cryptographic content identifier that uniquely identifies the exact content of that liked record.

These like records exist under the app.bsky.feed.like namespace in the user’s repo. Bluesky’s repo model is built so that these repos are hosted on a user’s Personal Data Server and are publicly readable through the AT Protocol APIs. Because of that, the like record and its fields can be fetched, indexed, and used by any client or service that can query the protocol.

The protocol exposes operations like getLikes. This returns all of the like records tied to a particular subject’s AT-URI and CID. It also exposes getActorLikes. This returns all of the subject references a given actor has liked. Those API calls return structured like objects with timestamps and subject references directly from the public repository data.

Various feeds hosted by different PDSs use the likes property to construct the feeds that you see. Since the likes of people you follow are included in your social graph, along with your own likes, you’re going to get served the porn they are consuming. Because likes are public and anyone can write an algorithm to see everyone’s likes, you can clearly see just how much porn people are consuming.

Honestly, what started to turn my stomach about the people on Bluesky is how they behave across different contexts. If you look through the records of the posts they interact with, you’ll see them engaging with political posts in the replies like a normal person. Then, when you look through their AT Protocol records, you see hours and hours of them interacting with every kind of porn imaginable. I am not exaggerating. Hours of likes for porn posts within 1–10 minutes of each other. Am I sex-negative? A prude? No, this site is filled with furry, gay bara porn, lol. You can have a drink without being an alcoholic. The problem with these people is like people who can’t have one drink without drinking the whole fucking day; they can’t consume porn in healthy ways.

I think people assume that their feed is customized for them and based on their likes. No—feeds are generalized based on what everyone likes and then served to your subgraph. It’s not just about who you follow; it’s about who they follow. So if you follow someone who follows a lot of people with porn addictions, you will see porn. Bluesky isn’t weighting the algorithm to do this. Basically, it’s the people in your social network with furry, hentai, or trans porn addictions who are driving it.

BlueSky’s Solution To Moderating Is Moderating Without Moderating via Social Proximity

I have noticed a lot of people are confused about why some posts don’t show up on threads, though they are not labeled by the moderation layer. Bluesky has begun using what it calls social neighborhoods (or network proximity) as a ranking signal for replies in threads. Replies from people who are closer to you in the social graph, accounts you follow, interact with, or share mutual connections with, are prioritized and shown more prominently. Replies from accounts that are farther away in that network are down-ranked. They are pushed far down the thread or placed behind “hidden replies.”

Each person gets their own unique view of a thread based on their social graph. It creates the impression that replies from distant users simply don’t exist. This is true even though they’re still technically public and viewable if you expand the thread or adjust filters. Bluesky is explicitly using features of subgraphs to moderate without moderating. Their reasoning is that if you can’t see each other, you can’t harass each other. Ergo, there is nothing to moderate.

Bluesky mentions that here:

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-31-2025-building-healthier-social-media-update

As a digression, I’m not going to lie: I really enjoyed working on software built on the AT protocol, but their fucking users are so goddamn weird. It’s sort of like enjoying building houses, but hating every single person who moves into them. But, you don’t have to deal with them because you’re just the contractor. That is how I feel about Bluesky. I hate the people. I really like the protocol and infrastructure.

I sort of am a sadist who does enjoy drama, so I do get schadenfreude from people with social media addictions and parasocial fixations who reply to random people on Bluesky, because they don’t realize their replies are disconnected from the author’s thread unless that person is within their network. They aren’t part of the conversation they think they are. They’re algorithmically isolated from everyone else. Their replies aren’t viewable from the author’s thread because of how Bluesky handles social neighborhoods.

Bluesky’s idea of social neighborhoods is about grouping users into overlapping clusters based on real interaction patterns rather than just the follow graph. Unlike Twitter, it does not treat the network as one big public square. Instead, it models networks of “social neighborhoods” made up of people you follow, people who follow you, people you frequently interact with, and people who are closely connected to those groups. They’re soft, probabilistic groupings rather than strict labels.

Everyone does not see the same replies. Bluesky is being a bit vague with “hidden.” Hidden means your reply is still anchored to the thread and can be expanded. There is another way Bluesky can handle this. Bluesky uses social neighborhoods to judge contextual relevance. Replies from people inside or near your social neighborhood are more likely to be shown inline with a thread, expanded by default, or served in feeds. Replies from outside your neighborhood are still public and still indexed, but they’re treated as lower-context contributions.

Basically, if you reply to a thread, you will see it anchored to the conversation, and everyone will see it in search results, as a hashtag, or from your profile, but it will not be accessible via the thread of the person you were replying to. It is like shadow-banning people from threads unless they are strongly networked.

Because people have not been working with the AT Protocol like I have, they assume they are shadow-banned across the entire Bluesky app view. No—everyone is automatically shadow-banned from everyone else unless they are within the same social neighborhood. In other words, you are not part of the conversation you think you are joining because you are not part of their social group.

Your replies will appear in profiles, hashtag feeds, or search results without being visually anchored to the full thread. Discovery impressions are neighborhood-agnostic: they serve content because it matches a query, tag, or activity stream. Once the reply is shown, the app then decides whether it’s worth pulling in the rest of the conversation for you. If the original author and most participants fall outside your neighborhood, Bluesky often chooses not to expand that context automatically.

Bluesky really is trying to avoid having to moderate, so this is their solution. Instead of banning or issuing takedown labels to DIDs, the system lets replies exist everywhere, but not in that particular instance of the thread.

I find this ironic because a large reason why many people are staying on Bluesky and not moving to the fediverse—thank God, because I do not want them there—is discoverability, virality, and engagement.

In case anyone is asking how I know so much about how these algorithms work: I was a consultant on a lot of these types of algorithms, so I certainly hope I’d know how they work, lol. No, you get no more details about the work I’ve done. I have no hand in the algorithm Bluesky is using, but I have proposed and implemented that type of algorithm before.

I have an interest in noetics and the noosphere. A large amount of my ontological work is an extension of my attempts to model domains that have no spatial or temporal coordinates. The question is how do you generalize a metric space that has no physically, spatial properties. I went to school to try to formalize those ideas. Turns out they’re rather useful for digital social networks, too. The ontological analog to spatial distance, when you have no space, is a graph of similarities.

It's happening again.

👉 https://semweb.pro/conference/2025/

Nous serons présents jeudi 27 novembre prochain à la conférence @semwebpro qui aura lieu au FIAP Paris !

#semwebpro #semweb #websem #opendata #linkeddata #linkedopendata #knowledgegraph #thesaurus #ontology #RDF #SPARQL #SHACL #OWL #JSONLD

"Translating and Formalizing the MIRAGE Guidelines to a Prototype MIRAGE Ontology and DCAT3 Extension Vocabulary for Glycomics Data Management" https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/wj8bz_v1

"We present the first comprehensive semantic formalization of MIRAGE guidelines through an integrated RDF ontology framework comprising the MIRAGE Ontology and MIRAGE-DCAT3 vocabulary. The MIRAGE Ontology models glycan structures, biological specimens, analytical instruments, and experimental processes with formal OWL semantics and SHACL validation constraints." https://index.biohackrxiv.org//2025/09/30/wj8bz.html

#biohackathon #BH25JP #shacl #ontology

Merci à tous pour vos présentations !

Nous avons reçu cette année 17 propositions pour SemWeb.pro 2025 !

Retrouvons-nous le 15 juillet pour découvrir le programme de cette édition.

📆 : 27 novembre 2025
📌 @Fiap Paris

#semweb #websem #opendata #linkeddata #linkedopendata
#knowledgegraph #thesaurus #ontology #RDF #SPARQL #SHACL #OWL #JSONLD

Casati and Varzi have revised their vanishingly compact SEP-entry on Holes, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/

#sep #philosophy #ontology #mereology #objects #olemassaolo #reikä #existence

As knowledge and understanding were the main subjects of last week's first #ise2025 lecture, I was also introducing the semiotic triangle as in C.K. Ogden, I.A. Richards: The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism, 1923.

#language #understanding #philosophy #nlp #linguistics #ontology #semiotics @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @tabea @enorouzi @sourisnumerique

📣 Appel à candidatures #SemWebPro !
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#semweb #websem #opendata #linkeddata #linkedopendata #knowledgegraph #thesaurus #ontology #RDF #SPARQL #SHACL #OWL #JSONLD

@logilab

FailRecOnt - Failure Recovery #Ontology : http://hdl.handle.net/2117/357471
A framework for reasoning about action failures in #robotics, based on the IEEE Ontology for Autonomous Robots (via the DUL ontology), that deduces causes of failures and suggest actions for recovery.

Besides recovery, it demonstrates how #AIPlanning from symbolic knowledge is #explainableai.