Slightly deeper on the Slippery Slope of Speculation
The Importance of Noticing and Notifying
Because is notices
changes and infers what information might
be useful to whom, based upon previous messages.
Redux is a degenerate example of a notion
of "attention" based on forward chaining: new stimuli fit
certain patterns and "micro-daemons" fire, firing
higher-level daemons, which finally result in important
notifications being sent.
ANYway,
the notion of the utility
of these, and other kinds of "exception messages",
also matches our notions of
- doing something on someone's behalf, in
non-trivial ways
i.e., pleasant surprises
- the utility of nonmonotonicity in complex
applications,
such as e-commerce
and/or knowledge management.
You didn't know that you
needed to know that Euros will replace DM in
a few years.
I am telling you because I think
you will find the information useful based on
my model of you, the domain, and new information
I have (which is that someone like you found
that information useful.)
cjp