Seeing as I have been asked, I'll let everyone on the Netbeans users' list know a bit about Clique Space(TM).
Clique Space is what I call my work. It is based upon the communication of the real-time state of one's devices; within one's own network, and between networks that represent any number of individuals. You own the devices in your own network; this is called your co-sovereign Clique Space, and these devices represent your physical presence in cyberspace to yourself and to others. The basic unit of state in Clique Space is called the "quale". I took this term from philosophy because I envisage my qualia to serve a purpose that is similar in concept to the phenomenon of the same name presented in philosophy of mind. To avoid confusion, it seems preferable to use the term "paraqualia" to refer to my term when discussing philosophical implications of my work so the domain-dependent contexts remain separate and confusion is avoided. I will herein use qualia because I will not be making any further direct reference to qualia in philosophy. A Clique Space aware hardware or software device hosts an instance of a peer device. These peers (currently implemented in Java) maintain knowledge about the state of their world as collections of qualia in a quale container. Pairs of qualia in the quale container can build arbitrarily complex relationships by being associated in a structure called a resonance, which is also a quale, held in the quale container. Qualia are singletons; only one quale describing a specific state can exist in the quale container at a time. State is described by a sense datum. Qualia are individually known by a sense datum. Every quale wraps a sense datum, but not all sense data are wrapped in qualia; a sense datum is internalised to yield a quale, and a quale is externalised to yield the sense datum instance that it wraps. Sense data are serialisable proxy objects; the serialised equivalents of sense data can be persisted and communicated between Peers. That's plenty for now. I would welcome constructive criticism and comment about what I've been up to. Have a great day. Owen.
