From "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" by Ted Nelson
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For any given subject or phenomenon, the y-axis (vertical) represents the complexity and the x-axis (horizontal) represents your degree of understanding. For any new subject, you start on the left with low complexity and low understanding. This means you have a lot of wrong assumptions and do not know how all the pieces fit together; you might thin... See more
Sven Schnieders • The Death of Intellectual Curiosity
It would be like a search engine for ideas and concepts. Perhaps something like public roam graphs will be the solution to this, but there are infinite ways to approach it.
Dmitri Brereton (dkb) • To Organize The World's Information
Jan Smuts, who in his book Holism and Evolution (1927) called for the unity of all things and knowledge. It alludes to what scientists, artists and philosophers have long considered to be a ‘vanishing point’ – a geometric notion with philosophical implications, where all of our particular areas of enquiry, knowledge and understanding eventually con
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