Open Web Mind
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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. Subscribe to stay in touch as it evolves.
Episodes
- Plots in Open Web Mind
This episode explores the Open Web Mind tool, which allows users to create visualizations and analyze relationships between various data points. It discusses how users can control node placement along x, y, and z-axes to create visualizati…
- Values in Open Web Mind
This episode of Open Web Mind discusses the knowledge hypergraph, emphasizing how the inclusion of numerical data alongside entity relationships significantly enhances its capabilities and applications.
- Minds and melds in Open Web Mind
Open Web Mind is a knowledge hypergraph comprising individual minds, each a unique knowledge hypergraph. These minds can meld together, creating a combined hypergraph that encompasses all human knowledge.
- The simplest protocol ever
The Open Web Mind podcast episode 'The Simplest Protocol Ever' discusses the Open Web Mind as a simple hypergraph of nodes and hyperedges. It questions how such simplicity can represent the complexity of the human mind, mentioning the numb…
- What is a hyperedge in Open Web Mind?
This episode explains hyperedges in Open Web Mind, a more precise method for representing connections than simple edges. Hyperedges are key to the platform's ability to capture human knowledge, evolving the knowledge graph into a knowledge…
- Open Web Mind... why now?
Host Mark Jeffery explains why now is the right time for Open Web Mind, a concept he first considered decades ago. He identifies three main reasons: the death of traditional search, the necessity to dismantle existing systems, and the impa…
- What is fire in Open Web Mind?
The Open Web Mind podcast episode "What is fire in Open Web Mind?" discusses how thinking is analogous to neural activity. It explains that the billions of neurons in the brain fire trillions of times per second, communicating signals to t…
- Why is the web written in the wrong language?
This episode of Open Web Mind discusses the idea that the web should not be written in human languages like English or Japanese, but should instead mimic human thought processes.
- What is flow in Open Web Mind?
This episode discusses the difficulty of achieving seamless flow on the web, contrasting it with the ease of mental flow. It introduces Open Web Mind as a potential solution for better web navigation and collective thought processes.
- AI won't kill Google... here's what will
This episode discusses how AI integrates into Google's business model, suggesting AI itself won't kill Google. Instead, the podcast explores the possibility of entirely different, unexpected technologies emerging as a threat to Google's es…
- How to rank edges in Open Web Mind
This episode explains how Open Web Mind ranks connections between ideas, drawing parallels to how pathways in the human brain are strengthened with use. The process involves considering the core characteristic of the mind where some idea c…
- What is rank in Open Web Mind?
This episode of Open Web Mind explores how the platform models the varying strengths of mental connections. It explains why assigning a direct strength value to each connection is not effective and introduces the method that does work.
- Who closed the web?
The episode discusses how the web has become less open due to various forces, contrasting it with its original promise of open connection. It touches upon the role of companies, government actions like censorship and legislation, and poten…
- What is an edge in Open Web Mind?
In Open Web Mind, an edge represents any connection between nodes, similar to how nodes can represent anything. Host Mark Jeffery explains this concept, referencing the network's structure of squillions of connected nodes.
- What is a node in Open Web Mind?
Open Web Mind, hosted by founder Mark Jeffery, explains that a node within the platform can represent anything.
- What is Open Web Mind?
Open Web Mind, hosted by founder Mark Jeffery, is described as a radical reinvention of knowledge capture, exploration, and sharing.
- Welcome to humanity's mind
Host Mark Jeffery introduces Open Web Mind, a project aimed at transforming the web from a collection of pages into a tool for collective human thought and knowledge sharing.