modeling perspectives.md

Modeling differing perspectives in an open system

The graph below illustrates some of the concepts described in The untapped potential of fragmentation-integrating systems. It shows modeling differing perspectives in an open system - e.g. a DAO, community or public website like a wiki.

• explanation of the notation:
  • DHT stands for distrubited hash table (e.g. a holochain DHT) - yet it could also be a smart contract or any database
  • we have DHTs (public or private) which contain "statements" - could be other objects of interest as well
  • everything in the public DHT is visible to everyone - this is the default perspective
  • distinct agent perspectives are modeled as perspectives onto that public DHT via "Spaces"
    • an agent might have thair own space or participate in spaces with other agents
  • spaces are actually the entity that populate the DHTs with statements via ack (acknowledge)
  • spaces can also suppress or ack certain statements or the generally the accumulative perspective of other space
    • a bit like a pub/sub

As a result various perspectives can be modeled without conflict and the entire system can be considered fragmentation aware as it is possible to "query"/see them.

graph TD
    U1["fa:fa-user" bob]
    U2["fa:fa-user" alice]
    U3["fa:fa-user" peter] 
    subgraph pub[public DHT]
    V0[["fa:fa-eye perspective"]]
        S2(earth is flat)
        S1(earth is round)
        S3(cats are cute)
        
    end 
    subgraph g1[SCIENCE SPACE]
    V1[["fa:fa-eye perspective"]]
        CA1[/cancel/]
        ACK1[/ack/]
    end 
    subgraph g2[FLAT EARTH SPACE]
         V2[["fa:fa-eye perspective"]]
         ACK2[/ack/]
         CA2[/cancel/]
    end 
    subgraph g3[private company space]
        V3[["fa:fa-eye perspective"]]
        ACK3[/ack/] --->|adds| S4
        subgraph private DHT 
            S4(this is a secret)
        end
        
    end 

   U1 -.->|has|V3
   U2 -.->|has|V1  
   U3 -.->|has|V2
   ACK1 -->|adds| S1
   ACK2 -->|adds| S2
   ACK1 -->|inherits| V0
   ACK2 -->|inherits| V0
   ACK3 ---->|inherits| V1
   CA1 --->|suppress| V2
   CA2 --->|suppress| S1

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