HOOMAN LIBRARY
The big idea is to create an interactive and navigable visual catalog of all human knowledge sorted in terms of importance in human thought.
This thought library will commence from the only known reality, you and will attempt to connect you to the exact work that is likely to contain the knowledge that could cater to your contemporary thought.
The Need?
Traditionally libraries have been the greatest source for accumulation of knowledge for all mankind on all subjects
The greater and livelier the library, the knowledge it accumulates over the year continues to expand.
The concept of physical libraries is slowly being replaced following the creation of the internet, that has the added ability to accumulate knowledge which had not been traditionally captured in the forms of written books.
That is the reason the Internet is called the Great accumulator.
With this accumulation of knowledge and its availability to all, at all times, comes the problem of abundance of knowledge.
We can imagine this great accumulation in the form of a single old school library that contains every published work on all subjects ever.
And it is available to you on any single device.
Where will you start?
Where is the catalog for this accumulated knowledge base of mankind?
Will you have enough time to read everything that is available to you?
Do you have access to what you want to read, or will you need to buy it?
What will any book teach you?
A Possible Solution
An interactive and navigable catalog that starts form you.
Imagine this as a neural network of all human thoughts interconnected in a natural thought based relational diagram that you can navigate in as much depth as you wish.
The inter relations of thoughts are all stated in simple natural language and the nodes are your actual connections to the world of knowledge.
A Worked Example?
At the heart of this library is you.
All nerves in this neural network start from you.
The first natural question would be whether you know that you exist. Options are the yes or no nerves.
The No thought link leads you to the nucleus (room) of philosophy. That room is linked to many other rooms like epistemology, theology, metaphysics and so on.
Each room has a title on its door that one simple question that the whole of that subject attempts to answer.
Ethics tell you “What is the right thing to do?
Metaphysics teaches you “Do you have a soul?