OntoClock, The Difference Between Having Ontological Knowledge and Knowing It Ontological Reflection Services-- The Hoarse

An SVG program, named OntoClock, is used to illustrate ontological knowledge. [Dodds2 2006] The SVG program OntoClock System (OCS) contains NASA JPL ontologies about Space, and Time. It is discussed in this paper that while OntoClock has knowledge of space and time its awareness of this knowledge is rather dim. A model of (nonexperiential) awareness is described, providing OntoClock with a circumscribed awareness of what actions its systems are performing, what goals are being serviced and knowing that it has knowledge of / knows about space and time. This 'knowing ' is a second order thing. Most machine intelligence systems HAVE knowledge but do not enact KNOWING, they are operated by "procedural knowledge", which is not in any way aware of itself, what it is doing, or even the state of its own situation. 'Knowing ' is shown here to provide OCS a means of 'being embedded in time'. Ontologies are a means of representing knowledge, the semantics of terms. An ontology can provide knowledge of spatial concerns and (associated) concommitant logic can provide details of how to perform needed operations, such as knowing how to scan fo