"Semantic Web" vs "Emergent Semantics"

One of the most common questions we often get asked is: "how is this different from the Semantic Web effort". The Semantic Web approach of Ontologies, Logic, RDF/OWL etc are not competing with the concept we at Cognika try to advocate. We think that semantics are emergent and not necessarily always well-defined through "standards" or other approaches. Instead emergent semantics are complementary to the top-down Ontological model. A good metaphor would be to view this as burning the candle from both ends.

However, we think while Ontologies and higher-level logical constructs have their place, the vast majority of semantics will be emergent through a combination of machine-learning and user interactions. An exemplar is how the web itself evolved through users linking to pages they thought was relevant etc. - so we think our approach is in the original spirit of the WWW.

Any comments?