Epistemological Ensembles, Archetypal Aggregations and Knowledge Proof Systems
Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) were invented in context of the probabilistic proof systems in the early 1980s. Epistemology is a meta narrative framework traversing the latent lattices of knowledge. Perhaps we can consider it as a collection of archetypes operating on knowledge. There were subtle and chaotic correlations between analytic arguments of knowledge and algorithmic Turing machines. Hence it was very difficult to construct a deterministic Turing machine that could mathematically reflect the knowledge systems.
Cryptography was more semiotic and symbolic and less semantic in those early years of rising tides of asymmetric and analytic cryptography. Hence it has imposed an ontological boundary on the epistemological range of knowledge systems. However with the widening scope of knowledge systems beyond the classical and conventional ontology, ephemeral epistemology has generated new possibilities in the early 2000s.
When we look at the contemporary epistemological dimensions, knowledge systems are time locked and time transient beyond the classical and conditional probabilities. The recursive and reflexive nature of zero knowledge proof systems are pointing towards a pathway of convergence between knot theory and knowledge proofs. Knots of time and space are creating interesting proofs of identities and activities. Thus ZKP systems like zkSNARKs, zkSTARKs etc. would be the mappings of succinct and seamless streams of argument originating in the ontological webs of knots.
