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What is it?
The Library of Everything.
Can the entire accumulated knowledge base of humanity be aggregated in a single library?
Even if we had no word ownership issues and somehow developed a program to scan and accumulate all sorts of knowledge humans have acquired in our entire history, the premise is flawed.
Knowledge will continue to exist beyond this point of aggregation and it also exists in forms that no physical or virtual library can fully capture it.
Therefore if we could imagine a place where we have access to all the written books ever written on any subject, we will have to call it the greatest library in the world.
This is the mission to create one.
How do humans learn?
These are the only sources through which you have gained any knowledge ever.
Libraries are full of books. The internet is full of libraries. All of what has been accumulated is also accessible on phones.
The issue is not the availability of knowledge.
Each one of us already suffers from an abundant supply of knowledge that we can not humanly process.
But how do you gain knowledge?
Option 1: If you desire to learn something, you can read a book or a webpage on your device and in fact, can even go to an actual library and sort through the old style subject matter catalogs to find the precise book that might contain what you desire to know.
Option 2: You can ask someone and be told something useful. That person to person transfer may or may not be transferrable into actual books or be recorded anywhere for it be useful to others, who also wanted to know it but never had access to it. Most of this traditional unwritten knowledge may not be captured.
Option 3: You can think about it or pray for it and hope that you are lucky or blessed.
What about the existing libraries?
Imagine entering this greatest library of all time to gain some knowledge.
You have thousands and millions of books that have similar names written by hundreds and thousands of writers.
Traditionally, they are all sorted by subject.
Here lies the key problem.
All of us have our own views on whether a book on cat sociology is more important for humans than one written in 1623 on the psychology of wombats.
In this example, both books belong to a specialized scientific subject which is clearly far less important to us as humans than say the book which teaches us how to grow wheat.
Therefore knowledge subjects have a ranking of books within them and subjects themselves need to be sorted in order of importance which leads us to meta physical knowledge base and all the famous books that speak of the non-physical world.
What if:
Philosophy, theology, religion, faith, psychology, and so on and on. Yet another millions of books authored by the biggest of names talking about human concepts and ideas on existence, life, the afterlife, God, and Nontheistic options.
All these books lying before you waiting to be picked up.
What you want to read has not been written yet.
You have simple questions that no one likes to write about.
You want to read the greatest books in order.
You do not know where to begin or where to start.
The solution?
A book-free library.
If I exist and I want to read, where to begin and why?
My decision on what to read could be different from your decision on what should be read. If both of us pick one book each, which book has solved a greater, more personal, more important, more human problem common to us?
If you want to start from the top, you would begin first be acknowledging yourself. If you do not acknowledge your own existence, which books and which authors have supported you and what did they say?
Maybe top 5 or 10 books on the human question of existence and what did they teach to humanity in one line. We will list your natural human question and the answer from a particular book and how those answers rank in terms of importance to a human life.
We will provide a short one line introduction to the book, the author, sources to read or buy in addition to the primary simple human thought that the book will or intends to solve.
If you choose, you can go to the source and read that book.
Example?
Let us start with the primary logical starting point.
Do you exist?
If yes, what could you read to get to the next logical question?
If you want to know what it means, which philosophers wrote about it?
If you differentiate between physical and metaphysical existence, which subjects should you study?
If you deny non-physical existence, what are the alternate theories of existence?
If your existence is subject to a creation event, who has written about the types of creation events?
If you deny that you exist, that is called choice, or freedom, or will, or duality. Many names depend on who said or wrote about it.
Is this is the right order in which the questions must be asked or is there another starting point?
If you believe in choice, can there be an existence without one?
The arrangement
The library can be imagined as a pyramid of human thought.
A series of primary human thoughts will be presented in form of simple questions. The questions themselves can be re-ordered by all other humans as the library is open to all.
The questions can be added, their logical order modified by the user to be vetted by other.
The output
Eventual output of this library can be visualized as following.
Side one will contain
A hierarchical pyramid of combined human thoughts
A sequential expandable
The principles of Hooman Library
No faith is promoted.
No man is assumed as all knowing.
