TheBrain 9 reaches its beta phase

Posted by Amontillado
Nov 19, 2017 at 01:15 PM

Thanks for admission into your rare company, I appreciate the chance to participate.

I crave, for some undefined reason, software for organizing and depicting knowledge.

I bet TheBrain 9 will be the answer. With respect, I think I’ll wait until it’s out of beta, but it sure sounds promising.

The genius in TheBrain, I think, comes from two things.

First, the jump thoughts, like WikiWord links except bidirectional. That encourages topic-based, hierarchical organization with interconnects.

The other comes from the limited view, which sounds counterintuitive, but I think plays on a magic aspect of our own internal organization.

There is a thing called the door effect. When you walk through a doorway from the office to the living room, you do a context shift. You’re no longer thinking in office mode, now you’re in living room mode. I suspect the same context phenomena is how chess masters can play multiple games.

When you click on a node in TheBrain, it becomes it’s own little context. A traditional mind map can display too much, if there’s any substance in my theory.

In fact, when people laugh at the old guy who can’t remember what he went to the kitchen for, they are actually laughing at an unwanted symptom of otherwise highly evolved, perfected context switching.

Personally, I’ve had that “problem” as long as I can remember. It’s not dotage, it’s muscular cranial organization at its best.

So, when, um, what was I going to say? Dadgumit…