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A tool to help thinking
The human species nowadays has so many tools to help with all sorts of tasks but not a de-factor or even a popular tool to help day-to-day thinking? Why? Is that because our ways of thinking are so different from each other? Or is it because for most of us, our thinking naturally lacks structure or even cohesiveness?
One of the main missions of the mind net is to solve that tooling problem. The first steps the mind net took are
1\. automatically discover connections between atomic thoughts\, and
2\. visualize them in the form of maps\.
3\. Allows users to organize them visually by arranging them in custom maps\.
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The mind net is a network of minds
More specifically, a network of ideas, thoughts, propositions, observations, things that live in our minds. Imagine we can connect things in our minds with things in other people's minds.
As explained by the book "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation", being able to make connections between ideas in different minds has been critical for human innovations.
To date, such connections are made through reading publications, which are very formal, linearly structured, and unilateral, or through conversations, which are casual, divergent, and rarely structured. Imagine if we have a medium that is specifically designed to facilitate connections between ideas in different minds. This medium is structured but allows easy divergence, multilateral and asynchronous.
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The mind net: mission statement raw.
The goal: promote human understanding and innovation
The means:
1\. Facilitate collaboration in thinking\, especially within spontaneously formed groups of people\.
2\. Facilitate distilling/transcending theories from atomic and spontaneously formed ideas within and between individuals\.
The tools to achieve the above:
1\. Record thoughts\.
2\. Discovery of connected thoughts
3\. Visualization of networks of connected thoughts
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The mind net enables pushing connection
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The birth of the mind net
7 years ago I worked at a hedge fund named Bridgewater. There is a unique culture there with a hyperfocus on improving the thinking of each and every employee. On average, each employee spends at least 1-2 hours a day engaging in meta-thinking: reflecting on their own thinking as well as providing "radically transparent feedbacks" to other people's thinking (including external people visiting the company). The company provides a suite of software developed by a dedicated team (lead the formal lead of Waston from IBM) and an iPad to everyone just for the purpose of providing feedbacks on each other's thinking. Feedbacks are recorded real-time during meetings, so all participant can immediately review the feedbacks from their coworkers on how their thinking was during the meeting.
Hypothesis
All inquiry thoughts or ideas can be structured into observations, hypotheses, and predictions
**Observation:** An observed empirical fact, indisputable for reasonable people.
**Hypothesis:** A conjecture that is generalized from observations (induction), or deducted from other hypotheses (deduction).
Collectively, hypotheses constitute our model (or theory) of the world.
A hypothesis, often together with other hypotheses, can produce predictions. We use the broadest sense of this word, not limited to untested theories of how something works. It encompasses assumption, theory, putative knowledge, and the narrow sense of hypothesis.
**Prediction:** A yet-to-be-made observation or (observational categorical per Quine). It's usually based on one or more hypotheses.
The relationships between these categories of thoughts are fixed. In another sentence, there is an algebra in these elements of thoughts.
This theory (or "hypothesis" as defined in itself) has
[a philosophical basis](https://www.themind.net/hypotheses/M1qolEkbTje29ze62yEfQg): our knowledge of the world consists solely of prediction models.
and [a neuroscience one](https://www.themind.net/hypotheses/M4p8C9lOTRu8ipf5zGtEJA) (and [independently](https://www.themind.net/hypotheses/n3Tx6wlrSWOjsXHSYggrFQ).) Out brain's intelligence is solely neurons trained to that predicts inputs working collectively.
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Hypothesis
Formulating inquiry thoughts into observations, hypotheses, and predictions enables learning.
Thanks to the intrinsic set of fixed relationships between them, this formalization provides a helpful structure to our inquiry. It enables the learning cycle of observations -> hypotheses -> predictions -> correct with observations.
This can be argued for [philosophically](https://www.themind.net/hypotheses/W2wRBi5mSeGueEYevUjMzw) and [neuroscientifically](https://www.themind.net/hypotheses/M4p8C9lOTRu8ipf5zGtEJA).
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