40 Years of Computing at Newcastle

Department Technical Report Series No. 531

Geometric Theory of Machine Awareness for Legal Information Retrieval and Reasoning.

M.A. Heather
B.N. Rossiter

University of Newcastle upon Tyne. 1995.

Abstract

This report considers that links in hypertext are representable as links in thought by covariant arrows between categories. Taken in dynamic context, the right-exactness of the Heyting implication A Þ B corresponds to inference and the next document in a non-linear trail through hypermedia. Awareness is provided by the dual contravariant arrows with the important special case of the intension-extension relationship. The corresponding left-exactness is the closure limit that invokes consciousness.


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Technical Report Abstract No. 531, 30 June 1997