Despite devising data structures, Computer Science has not yet questioned the fundamental paradigm that governs how data structures are mapped onto concrete storage spaces.
Consequently, all digital and analog systems ever designed represent knowledge in the same way—a way derived from Writing, as we humans are accustomed to.
The Entrelacs Manifesto claims one can and one should develop computing systems based on a new information paradigm called the Entrelacs Paradigm.
Anyone interested in this objective can freely adhere to and relate their work to this manifesto.
More specifically, this manifesto makes the following claims:
The only paradigm in use so far to store information within computers is the box/value paradigm. Unfortunately, it’s a fundamental abstraction inversionW, which hinders computer capabilities.
The Entrelacs Paradigm is a better abstraction for information representation.
It consists of promoting arrows as the first and only citizen class of an information system.
An arrow is recursively defined as an abstract-made-concrete, immutable, content-indexed singleton of a pair of arrows.
In this paradigm, all data structures are reimagined as arrows, down to fundamental information units like vertices and values.
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It’s possible to design an entirely new knowledge system based on the Entrelacs Paradigm,
as demonstrated by a simple “pen & paper” experiment.
It’s possible to code a reasonably efficient software implementation of such a knowledge system, known as an Arrow Space, on top of existing hardware platforms.
It’s necessary to develop a new form of Computing Environment based on an Arrow Space, namely an Entrelac System, which will demonstrate a whole new range of native abilities.