]> 2008/06/10 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. mind control A collection of events in which one agent attempts to coerce the action of another's mind against their will. This includes attempts using telepathy or ESP, but also includes, e.g., secret government experiments using drugs or satellites. Borderline positive examples include administering truth serum during an interrogation. Borderline negative examples include getting someone drunk in the hopes of facilitating sexual activity; stronger negative examples include persuading someone to believe something and coercion (using force, you can coerce someone's actions, but not their thoughts). MindControl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_control mind control A collection of events in which one agent attempts to coerce the action of another's mind against their will. This includes attempts using telepathy or ESP, but also includes, e.g., secret government experiments using drugs or satellites. Borderline positive examples include administering truth serum during an interrogation. Borderline negative examples include getting someone drunk in the hopes of facilitating sexual activity; stronger negative examples include persuading someone to believe something and coercion (using force, you can coerce someone's actions, but not their thoughts). MindControl mind control A collection of events in which one agent attempts to coerce the action of another's mind against their will. This includes attempts using telepathy or ESP, but also includes, e.g., secret government experiments using drugs or satellites. Borderline positive examples include administering truth serum during an interrogation. Borderline negative examples include getting someone drunk in the hopes of facilitating sexual activity; stronger negative examples include persuading someone to believe something and coercion (using force, you can coerce someone's actions, but not their thoughts). MindControl DurativeEventType A collection of collections. If TYPE is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwNyXxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DurativeEventType</a>, each instance of TYPE is a "durative event" extended through time, i.e., it endures continuously between its starting and ending points, and such points are not simultaneous. As an example, writing a letter is a durative event type, since an event of this type will (except in "degenerate" cases) have a distinct starting point, a period of time in the middle during which writing occurs, and an end point at which the letter is written. By contrast, winning a prize is an instantaneous change: up to the moment the event takes place, you don't have the prize, after that you do. Granted, the awarding of the prize might in fact have a physical duration, but from a conceptual or logical point of view it might as well have none. If one thinks of events as the occurrence of "changes", one may regard durative events as changes that intrinsically occupy a continuous, non-zero chunk of time, and non-durative events (for which see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv4unQpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PunctualEventType</a>) as instantaneous changes. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9vChJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CumulativeEventType</a> is a proper specialization of this collection, because the cumulativity property (see the salient assertion for <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv9vChJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CumulativeEventType</a>) implies that all process types can have temporal extension. Naturally, many <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwNyXxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DurativeEventType</a>s are not cumulative, but rather <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv48ocpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AccomplishmentType</a>s. type of durative event mind control A collection of events in which one agent attempts to coerce the action of another's mind against their will. This includes attempts using telepathy or ESP, but also includes, e.g., secret government experiments using drugs or satellites. Borderline positive examples include administering truth serum during an interrogation. Borderline negative examples include getting someone drunk in the hopes of facilitating sexual activity; stronger negative examples include persuading someone to believe something and coercion (using force, you can coerce someone's actions, but not their thoughts). MindControl A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvrOVYpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PurposefulPhysicalAction</a> (q.v.). Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViMHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ControllingSomething</a> is a purposeful physical action in which an agent intentionally controls an object (i.e. instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi255wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SomethingExisting</a>). It is not necessary that the agent touch the object being controlled (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi9sJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">objectControlled</a>), only that s/he exercise control over some of its movements, functioning, or actions. Specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViMHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ControllingSomething</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBgG5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GuidingAMovingObject</a> (some instances of which involve a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVlIaZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RemoteControlDevice</a>), <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViMoZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HandlingAnObject</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViS7pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Braking</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVivYJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SteeringADeviceByHand</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjUJ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PlayingAMusicalInstrument</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPu-YpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CuttingFabric</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViMIpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CarryingWhileLocomoting</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViadpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FlushingAToilet</a>. When a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkJe5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ControlDevice</a> (q.v.) is being used by an agent for its primary function, a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViMHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ControllingSomething</a> event is typically taking place. controlling event ControllingSomething