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Signification structures - an effective vehicle collective scientific thinking 

Until the end of the twentieth century, carrying semantic information have been described and visual symbols on various surfaces, mostly on paper. 

Properties of the media defined the format of the recording and reporting - a consistent, semi-stream of text. 

Plain text, ie text flows quite well convey the meaning of domestic communication, and literary works. 
Scientific knowledge about the target object is a structured set of descriptions of its properties. Description of the basic properties of the object is "a quantum of knowledge" - the thesis. 

Therefore, scientific knowledge is quantized, and structured information. 
Working with the scientific information required by the format with convenient means of recording, storing and pokazyvaniya structure of information, semantic relations between its points, properties and attribute points. Stream format does not have these funds. 
For lack of a better, scientific reports and papers, as a rule, are also traditionally set out in the normal streaming format. The main mode of communication in the ancient Greek academies - oral presentations - remains so in modern workshops and conferences. Computer monitors show the scientific work in the form of the same text streams, which were, in principle, on the ancient Egyptian papyrus. 
Collective works are usually composed of distinct parts, written by different authors, as well as the streaming format does not allow you to establish an integrated document abstracts from various authors. 
   Presentation of the scientific community is an important part of scientific activity. Most members of this community is not a specialist on a narrow topic of a work. They evaluate the work based on the discussion of narrow specialists in their subjects. 
   Traditionally, the discussion is the transfer between the parties to individual messages and documents in streaming format. Between the points of different messages and documents have a semantic connection. They are very important to understand the meaning of the discussion. But information about them in streaming texts (eg, quotations, footnotes) is limited because the record and use it's inconvenient. 

   Readers are forced to compare the documents and communications between them and identify the semantic relation between their points. They spend so much time and effort. The more complicated the debate, the more time and effort it requires. For complex operations such time and effort is usually not sufficient to properly understand and evaluate them. 

   The scientific community is unable to detect errors in large numbers and adjust for new research. Thus, the use of streaming format significantly limits the effectiveness of scientific activity. In particular, the streaming format is the main reason for the vast majority of false treatises on the properties of social systems. 

The set of points connected by semantic links form a semantic structure. Its properties correspond to the properties of scientific knowledge. Therefore, this structure may be the best format for scientific information. Signification structures supporting scientific way of thinking through the "quantization of knowledge and the storage of semantic relationships. 
  Physical media semantic structures can be computerized databases. In their written theses and their relationship, the properties and attributes. The main function of the media structures of meaning - to show abstracts of scientific communication and discussion in the order, which is defined semantic relationships among them. This eliminates the need to compare the different messages and documents of various authors and to identify links between their points. Therefore, an understanding of the discussion much easier and faster. 

Signification structures can be effective carriers of the collective scientific thinking, and highly social. In doing so, they store information about the authorship of each submission. Through semantic structures optimally implemented network discussion (forums, newsgroups, electronic journals). 

Using semantic structures significantly reduces the number of scientific errors, as well as the time and effort spent on research, development of the theory and estimation of the scientific community. 

Virtual think tank for technology-based semantic structures Discusser created now. 

The transition from the text flows to the sense structures comparable to the value of the spread of writing and publishing, and opens Intellectual era civilization.