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.

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Sources:

• List of ISO 3166 country codes from the International Organization for Standardization
• List of land boundaries from the CIA’s World Factbook
• Wikipedia article on India

Other Wikipedia articles:

• Campanology
• Tulip mania
• The match between Coventry City and Bristol City in 1977

Reference:

• In the human brain, the more often a pathway between neurons is activated, the stronger that pathway becomes, which makes it more likely to be activated in the future

Permission:

• Wikipedia content licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Hosted by Mark Jeffery founder of Open Web Mind

I release the Open Web Mind podcast as a video too! Watch here.

The full article is here.

Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.

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 core characteristic of mind, that some connections are stronger than others?

You might think the answer’s obvious.

We simply assign a strength to each connection, right?

Wrong.

It turns out that assigning a strength to each connection won’t work.

Here’s what will.

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Hosted by Mark Jeffery founder of Open Web Mind

I release the Open Web Mind podcast as a video too! Watch here.

The full article is here.

Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.

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.

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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 fingerprints, without some shadowy mechanism dictating what you can and can’t say and see, without some nameless functionary nudging you away from what you want to do towards what they want you to do.

How did this happen?

When the web was invented, it promised open connection between every person on the planet.

Who broke this promise?

Here are the four forces that have worked to close the web...

...and how Open Web Mind will open it right back up again.

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References:

• Companies like The New York Times, Barnes & Noble, eBay and Amazon, not to mention little known phone companies, health companies, travel companies and even florists, were willing to payAOL and CompuServe hundreds of millions of dollars to bring their content inside the walls of their gardens.
• The FBI directed Twitter to censor certain ideas, certain stories and certain people.
• In some countries, politicians fund independent media, too, paying journalists a substantial portion of their salaries.
• In some countries, politicians pass clumsy legislation dictating what tech companies can and can’t show us in our feeds.
• Governments can, at a whim, hit tech companies with massive finesfor arcane transgressions, force them to fund local media, and strangle them with antitrust lawsuits.
• We need to be eternally vigilant.

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Hosted by Mark Jeffery founder of Open Web Mind

I release the Open Web Mind podcast as a video too! Watch here.

The full article is here.

Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.