Epistemological Cartography
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1. Abstract
see Epistemology and Cartography. On the night of 0x2169, I found the idea of mapping abstract knowledge domains into a mental landscape to be quite attractive..
2. Stream
2.1. 0x216A
- Cartography usually refers mapping landscapes and terrains physically. I find the idea of mapping the abstract knowledge landscape.
- might allow me to do some interesting things
- abstractly map journeys between domains
- define closeness and interrelatedness between domains
- it might just have to be a math in itself
- the physical world we experience is 4 dimensional (time + location): but I can explicitly see that I'll need to work in an indefinite number of abstract dimensions when working with an epistemological landscape.
- I'll also have to develop notions of containing a domain within another
- distance between two domains
- how should I capture the indefiniteness between two domains?
- need a more organic, flexible, non-rigid form of math that allows for possibilities: Probability might be a good starting point but there's a lot more that I need to reject than accept into the final model
- once I correctly capture the notion of indefinite dimensions, I can start building up analogies of travelling between domains via different routes.
- Symbolic Algebra could be a hyper-central node that allows you to reach any node fairly quickly.