Artificial bootstrap

The author investigates the migration of a process from the symbol level to the knowledge level based on one such study done on an atomic reactor. In engineering there are self-emerging processes grouped under the common term bootstrap. The nature of such bootstraps is examined in providing explanations for exotic new states in the reactor. Knowledge engineers formulate the performance of the reactor on a problem space, where they are forced to postulate the existence of a special function, called the delta function, to explain the occurrences of bootstraps. At the symbol level, the existence of bootstrap operation triggered by a delta function is seen to have its origin from the basic nonmonotonic behavior of the system. At the knowledge level, it is argued that a bootstrap or its persuasive explanation comes from the knowledge engineer who is the architect of the system, both at the symbol and knowledge level. It is argued that knowledge engineers should be able to design metarules to control and explain bootstraps