Open Web Mind

I’ve always enjoyed creating visualizations. The trouble is, it takes a really long time to create these visualizations: research the topic, collate the data, source the images, design the layout and code the animation. I’ve long dreamed of a tool that would do all the hard work for me. So I made one. Open Web Mind allows you to visualize nodes... nodes that can represent anything: mountains, colo...

The knowledge hypergraph is all about edges between nodes. But it’s not just about relationships between entities . It has cold, hard numbers, too. If you’ve been impressed by what you can do with the relationships between entities in Open Web Mind, you’re going to be blown away by what you can do when you throw in those cold, hard numbers. — Credits wordings from WordNet created by Princeton Univ...

Open Web Mind is a knowledge hypergraph that holds all human knowledge. But it’s not a monolith. It’s made up of many individual minds. Each mind is its own knowledge hypergraph. Each has different edges , but these edges are between the same nodes . Which means you can meld your mind with other minds, and think as if your mind and those other minds were one . Open Web Mind is a billion knowledge...

Open Web Mind is a hypergraph of nodes and hyperedges. Nothing more. Nothing less. It’s the simplest protocol ever . So how can something so simple hold something as complex as humanity’s mind? — References There are a hundred billion neurons in your brain Images Earthenware phrenological bust from the Wellcome Collection licensed under CC BY 4.0 Multipolar Neuron by Bruce Blaus licensed under CC...

I’ve talked about edges in Open Web Mind, representing connections between nodes. But there’s a more precise way to represent connections in Open Web Mind. Hyperedges . Hyperedges are what make Open Web Mind a truly powerful way to capture human knowledge. They transform the knowledge graph into the knowledge hypergraph . — References: Node names and definitions from WordNet created by Princeton U...

I first imagined minds that might augment our own some three decades ago. Yes, I really am that old, and I have the grey hair to prove it. So why , three decades later , is it finally the right time for a mind for all humanity? Why now? Here are three reasons why the time is ripe for Open Web Mind: Reason #1: Search is dead Reason #2: Smash the system Reason #3: Seeing is believing — References: g...

How do you think? Fire. The billions of neurons in your brain fire trillions of times a second. How do you think in Open Web Mind? Same answer. Fire. — References: There are billions of neurons in your brain. They fire trillions of times a second. There’s resting potential, threshold potential and action potential . Each neuron, if it fires, it communicates a signal to thousands of other neurons....

If you go to any web page, chances are you’ll find it’s written in the wrong language. It shouldn’t be written in English. Or Japanese. Or Arabic. The web shouldn’t be written in any language spoken by humans. It shouldn’t mimic the way we speak . It should mimic the way we think . — References: A hundred billion neurons are intricately interconnected in our brains A few tens of thousands of years...

Why is it so hard to flow from one thing to another on the web? In our minds, we flow so easily from one motion to the next, one feeling to the next, one idea to the next. Why can’t it be like this when we’re on the web? Why can’t we flow as easily through our collective mind? Well, with Open Web Mind, we can . — Hosted by Mark Jeffery founder of Open Web Mind I release the Open Web Mind podcast a...

Far from killing Google, AI slots seamlessly into their business model. As long as we still go to Google when we want to know something, and as long as Google tells us what we want to know at least as well as OpenAI, and as long as we don’t care that Google’s balancing what we want to know with what people with influence and people with money want us to know, then it doesn’t matter how Google arri...

Open Web Mind captures a core characteristic of mind, that some connections between ideas are stronger than others, by ranking these connections. So how does Open Web Mind decide these rankings? This question of how to rank edges in Open Web Mind will take us to the even deeper question of how we make connections in our minds. — Sources: List of ISO 3166 country codes from the International Organi...

You know how some connections in your mind are stronger than others? Every time you think of summer, you think of ice cream. Every time you’re asked to think of an animal, your mind goes to an elephant, never a bat, or a penguin, or an octopus. Every time you think of Uncle Mike, you immediately think of that time in Marrakesh when... well, you know the story. How does Open Web Mind capture this c...

Remember when the web was open? No? Well, I’m not surprised. It’s a long time since the web was the open medium we were promised. Who closed the web? You might be surprised at some of the culprits... ...and at how close we might be to breaking the web open again. — You can’t do much on the web these days without giving your real name, your social security number, your driver’s licence and your fin...

Open Web Mind is a squillion nodes... connected by edges . So what is an edge in Open Web Mind? Here’s a clue: I just told you everything you need to know about edges. Well... almost everything. In Open Web Mind, just as a node can represent anything , an edge can represent any connection between nodes. — Hosted by Mark Jeffery founder of Open Web Mind I release the Open Web Mind podcast as a vide...

At its core, Open Web Mind is a squillion nodes. So, you might be wondering, what exactly is a node in Open Web Mind? Here’s the answer to that question in one word : Anything . In Open Web Mind, a node can represent any thing . — Wikipedia notability guidelines — Hosted by Mark Jeffery founder of Open Web Mind I release Open Web Mind as a video too! Watch this episode here . The full article is h...

Open Web Mind is a radical reinvention of the way we capture, explore and share our knowledge. Here, in seven words, is the essence of Open Web Mind. — Hosted by Mark Jeffery founder of Open Web Mind I release Open Web Mind video too! Watch here . The full article is here . Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.

What if we've been doing the web wrong? What if, instead of mindlessly browsing , we could be thinking ? What if, more than a mere collection of pages, the web could be our collective mind ?  Open Web Mind is a radical reinvention of the way we capture, explore and share our knowledge.  Welcome to humanity's mind. — Hosted by Mark Jeffery , founder of Open Web Mind I release The Last Theory as a v...