Categorical Informatics in Earth System Governance
February 29, 2016 — Brad Venner
Earth System <- Informatics -> Governance Ecology <- Covenant -> Democracy
Can categorical informatics contribute to a span connecting the two pillars of earth systems and governance?
All that can fall within the range of human understanding is in three categories. The nature of things as they are in themselves, their relations, and their manner of operation. What man himself ought to do, as a thinking and willing agent, for the attainment of any end, especially happiness. The ways and means by which the knowledge of each of those two is attained and communicated. I think that science can properly be divided into these three sorts. --- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book 4, Chapter xxi.
Key notions in categorical informatics - information integration, updatable views, aggregation, lenses
Covenant as a general theory of norms.