priv See “Individual & Collective Wikis” in slides.
- Everyone has their own wiki, maintained via/within their mindscape (independent thought space).
- This wiki represents a subset of the making mind’s worldview.
- Each note in the wiki is a node, representing an object conceived by the mind, and containing the mind’s view (set of thoughts) on that object.
- View = how the mind would describe the object, any current, nebulous thoughts about it - just its overall general conception of the object.
- Mindware integrates similar/same objects across these wikis/worldviews, to form the collective wiki/worldview.
- Practicalities
- Can e.g. assume if object shares a name (“WW2”, “capitalism”, “internet”, etc.), it is the same object.
- Can use NLP (via LLMs?) to infer whether objects with different names could be considered the same fundamental object, and hence form part of the pool of views to integrate to form the “collective conception” of that object.
- Usage, benefits
- From youth, when cultivating our mindscape, we add our views of the objects we learn about (conceive of) as we go through life, gradually developing the complexity of this mental→digital network, broadening and deepening its span/scope (increasing breadth/depth), and so we have a representation of our current conception/understanding of everything at any given point in time.
- We can witness how our views of things have evolved.
- TM thinks this can foster curiosity, as we’re encouraged to clarify and explicitise/express/externalise our thoughts/views on everything, all the while maintaining a maximally open-mind - an openness to modifying & updating these views. It can generate an eagerness to share and compare views:
- A: “I added a view on the meaning of life yesterday.”
- B: “Oooh nice, I’ll add mine when I get home.”
- C: “I added mine a few months ago but I need to update it.”