The Conscious Notebook: A Narrative Human Ontology

The present trend in computer ontology is toward the development of artificial intelligence and human ontology is an intervention to positively support it with natural human intelligence such that it is infused with the pluralism that characterizes human social structures. This book utilizes a meta-narrative that examines the life of an academically failed physician and his relatively academically successful daughter. The short individual narrative beads that are threaded into this larger narrative represent a multi genre science and fantasy of medicine. On one hand it balances a postmodern stance with its incredulity toward absolute evidence based truth on the other a tolerant pluralism that simply recognizes all approaches as credible as long as the resultant is geared toward positive outcomes (and not driven by fear of negative outcomes). The book portrays a non-linear narrative ontology interspersed in linear discourses on its relevance to human cognition and ontology.