I would like to see someone [or group of someones] create a visual [glyphic] system of categorisation that branches and expands from first principles >> first principles here meaning, fundamental questions like existence, god, reality, language, etc. that was scalable from a single composite glyph to whatever resolution the user decides. This would then be able to be placed within a "knowledge schematic".
So for example:
There would be a metaglyph for the subject: GOD
Depending on what you believed/felt about it, the glyph would have different subglyphs off it >> atheist, mono, pan, undecided, don't care, etc. Within these subglyphs there would be subsubglyphs [for want of a better term] >> mono: judaic, western christian, bob etc. This process goes on as long as someone wishes to differentiate >> western christian: Roman Catholic, Protestant, etc etc.
On the "knowledge schematic" this would be seen as a branching off branches [nice and fractal]. The only problem i forsee here is that it might need to be hyperdimensionally depicted [i don't think 3d will work but it might].
By doing all this, i hope that the problems we face in discussing stuff here and elsewhere will lessen, ie arguing about peripheral ephemera when we may have fundamental differences in reality view [at least this way we can discuss the REAL issues behind disagreement, or save time by knowing we will disagree >> oh he's just a fundie-materialist agnostic existentialist].
The other main benefit is that the "knowledge schematic" [i hesitate to call it the "knowledge tree"] would contain potentially all permutations of thought related to our existence [the closer branches affecting the later branches] and so once its been added, there is no longer any need for new[and old] thinkers to re-invent the wheel as such by arguing the same stuff over and over and over again. We can just go to the KNSCH and see where we happen to be today, and where those that have felt the need to continue differentiating have gone further as well as their opposing and undecided or other positions.
All in a neat collapsible, infinitely expandable Glyph.
It could sit under your avatar [it could BE your avatar].
i am halfway joking, but i think it would be good and it would work if technically possible. The glyphs would have an organic quality, plant-like >> a genetics of information....
which of course leads to the thought
...maybe it already exists
hmmm... on second thoughts scrub all that, i think i'm going for a walk in the park
So for example:
There would be a metaglyph for the subject: GOD
Depending on what you believed/felt about it, the glyph would have different subglyphs off it >> atheist, mono, pan, undecided, don't care, etc. Within these subglyphs there would be subsubglyphs [for want of a better term] >> mono: judaic, western christian, bob etc. This process goes on as long as someone wishes to differentiate >> western christian: Roman Catholic, Protestant, etc etc.
On the "knowledge schematic" this would be seen as a branching off branches [nice and fractal]. The only problem i forsee here is that it might need to be hyperdimensionally depicted [i don't think 3d will work but it might].
By doing all this, i hope that the problems we face in discussing stuff here and elsewhere will lessen, ie arguing about peripheral ephemera when we may have fundamental differences in reality view [at least this way we can discuss the REAL issues behind disagreement, or save time by knowing we will disagree >> oh he's just a fundie-materialist agnostic existentialist].
The other main benefit is that the "knowledge schematic" [i hesitate to call it the "knowledge tree"] would contain potentially all permutations of thought related to our existence [the closer branches affecting the later branches] and so once its been added, there is no longer any need for new[and old] thinkers to re-invent the wheel as such by arguing the same stuff over and over and over again. We can just go to the KNSCH and see where we happen to be today, and where those that have felt the need to continue differentiating have gone further as well as their opposing and undecided or other positions.
All in a neat collapsible, infinitely expandable Glyph.
It could sit under your avatar [it could BE your avatar].
i am halfway joking, but i think it would be good and it would work if technically possible. The glyphs would have an organic quality, plant-like >> a genetics of information....
which of course leads to the thought
...maybe it already exists
hmmm... on second thoughts scrub all that, i think i'm going for a walk in the park