
I think that a much better approach to the so-called cloning is (for the reasons I give below) to develop synchronized nodes. The problem is that such misunderstanding hinders the visualization of the possibilities and specially of the limitations of cloning. These concepts are often conceived as more or less equivalents, or closely related to each other, or the one conducting to the other(s). But, I think this very general appearence may also become a strong limitation to the usefulness of cloning if the clone becomes a mere, dull replica without allowing any difference in at least some of its elements.īut, to see these possibilities and limitations in more concrete terms, with examples, it is necessary, I think, first to agree the terms of the concepts we are talking about, because I think there is much confusion in the understandig of concepts such as cloning, mirroring, multiple parents, conceptual map, network structure. under different contexts (since the same information can imply different meanings, depending on the nature of the branche they are inserted into, their siblings, ert.) besides, it is thought that such replication could allow a lot of time and effort savings. I am concerned about the future of the whole project if this idea starts confusing everything in the program! pilominco Posts: 32 Joined: Tue 8:21 amĬloned nodes may seem to have important and interesting appliations since, in general terms, they would allow the user to replicate clusters of information, their organization and functionalities in different places of a map, i.e. Which parent do we have to choose when we go backwards? Logically it has no sense. If you divide in different ways a the bottom line you are making the world confusing. A tree is for dividing things once and once again in a consistent manner. This whole thing could end up weakening the program in a fatal way. this whole thing would radically modify the spirit of the program. That is against the true sense of inteligence.

You are failing to make a decision about the way you look at the world. If you have different criteria for a node you are failling to organize.
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The proof is clear: How would you print such a map in the linear form that is typicall of a word processor? Repeating the cloned nodes, or rather showing them only the first time they appear? The problem with all this is that you are thinking about how to present info, not about the real way of organizing it.

In a tree, the criteria is unique: allways distince oposition between brothers.

Graphs, versus trees, are undetermined because hey incorporate different criteria depending on which line is connecting nodes. When third options are permited reason, inteligene itself gets lost. That is how concepts work in real life: big-small, black-white, etcetera. In fact, phylosophially, any categories are always mutually exclusive.
