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This inquiry is guided by two questions that express themselves in many different guises.  In their most laconic and provocative style, self-referent but not purely so, they typically bring a person to ask:

This inquiry is guided by two questions that express themselves in many different guises.  In their most laconic and provocative style, self-referent but not purely so, they typically bring a person to ask:

: ''Why am I asking this question?''

:* ''Why am I asking this question?''

: ''How will I answer this question?''

:* ''How will I answer this question?''

Cast in with a pool of other questions these two often act as efficient catalysts of the inquiry process, precipitating and organizing what results.  Expanded into general terms these queries become tantamount to asking:

Cast in with a pool of other questions these two often act as efficient catalysts of the inquiry process, precipitating and organizing what results.  Expanded into general terms these queries become tantamount to asking:

: ''What accumulated funds and immediate series of experiences lead up to the moment of surprise that causes the asking of a question?''

:* ''What accumulated funds and immediate series of experiences lead up to the moment of surprise that causes the asking of a question?''

: ''What operational resources and planned sequences of actions lead on to the moment of solution that allows the ending of a problem?''

:* ''What operational resources and planned sequences of actions lead on to the moment of solution that allows the ending of a problem?''

Phrased in systematic terms, they ask yet again:

Phrased in systematic terms, they ask yet again:

: ''What capacity enables a system to exist in states of question?''

:* ''What capacity enables a system to exist in states of question?''

: ''What competence enables a system to exit from its problem states?''

:* ''What competence enables a system to exit from its problem states?''

====1.1.1  Systematic Inquiry====

====1.1.1  Systematic Inquiry====

In their underlying form and tone these questions sound a familiar tune. Their basic tenor was brought to a pitch of perfection by Immanuel Kant, in a canon of inquiry that exceeds my present range.  Luckily, my immediate aim is much more limited and concrete.  For the present it is only required to ask:  ''How are systematic inquiry and knowledge possible?'' That is, how are inquiry and knowledge to be understood and implemented as functions of systems and how ought they be investigated by systems theory?  In short: ''How can systems have knowledge as a goal?'' This effort is constrained to the subject of systems and the frame of systems theory.  It will attempt to give system-theoretic analyses of concepts and capacities that can be recognized as primitive archetypes, at least, of those that AI research pursues with avid interest and aspires one day to more fully capture. By limiting questions about the possibility of inquiry and knowledge to the subject and scope of systems theory there may be reason to hope for a measure of practical success.

In their underlying form and tone these questions sound a familiar tune.

Their basic tenor was brought to a pitch of perfection by Immanuel Kant,

in a canon of inquiry that exceeds my present range.  Luckily, my immediate

aim is much more limited and concrete.  For the present it is only required

to ask:  "How are systematic inquiry and knowledge possible?" That is, how

are inquiry and knowledge to be understood and implemented as functions of

systems and how ought they be investigated by systems theory?  In short:

"How can systems have knowledge as a goal?" This effort is constrained to

the subject of systems and the frame of systems theory.  It will attempt

to give system-theoretic analyses of concepts and capacities that can be

recognized as primitive archetypes, at least, of those that AI research

pursues with avid interest and aspires one day to more fully capture.

By limiting questions about the possibility of inquiry and knowledge

to the subject and scope of systems theory there may be reason to

hope for a measure of practical success.

Kant's challenge is this:  To say precisely 'how' it is possible,

Kant's challenge is this:  To say precisely ''how'' it is possible, in procedural terms, for contingent beings and empirical creatures, physically embodied and even engineered systems, to move toward or synthetically acquire forms of knowledge with an ''a priori'' character, that is, declarative statements with a global application to all of the situations that these agents might pass through.  It is not feasible within the scope of systems theory and engineered systems to deal with the larger question:  Whether these forms of knowledge are somehow ''necessary'' laws, applying to all conceivable systems and universes.  But it does seem reasonable to ask how a system's trajectory might intersect with states whose associated knowledge components have a wider application to the system's manifold as a whole.

in procedural terms, for contingent beings and empirical creatures,

physically embodied and even engineered systems, to move toward or

synthetically acquire forms of knowledge with an 'a priori' character,

that is, declarative statements with a global application to all of the

situations that these agents might pass through.  It is not feasible within

the scope of systems theory and engineered systems to deal with the larger

question:  Whether these forms of knowledge are somehow 'necessary' laws,

applying to all conceivable systems and universes.  But it does seem

reasonable to ask how a system's trajectory might intersect with states

whose associated knowledge components have a wider application to the

system's manifold as a whole.

1.1.2  Intelligence, Knowledge, Execution

====1.1.2  Intelligence, Knowledge, Execution====

Intelligence, for my purposes, is characterized as a technical ability of choice

Intelligence, for my purposes, is characterized as a technical ability of choice

in a situation as represented.  It is the ability to pick out a line on a map,

in a situation as represented.  It is the ability to pick out a line on a map,