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[Brief Intro Youtube Video:](#h.oj3xjzs81rwg)

[Talk Proposal Preview (Outline/Draft)](#h.gglvz2w18akb)

[Key Quotes](#h.2s4exvnnwya)

[Fig 1: Kanizsa Triangle, Visual Gestalts](#h.9595hxrbzv9f)

[Fig 2: MIT’s Open Gestalts - Clusters of Related Suggestions Given to MIT Suggestion Box](#h.bfk3qlooebv0)

#	Content	Link	Section	Status	Visibility	Source
1	Al Gore said several years ago that he wasn't sure how, but that in the 21st century "[the Internet] will enable the emergence of a global mind"	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
2	I was a student of Marvin Minsky's and have a proposal as how.	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
3	We can realize this by building a new form of media congruent with the “cognitive ergonomics” of human thought.	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
4	The main frame for this: creating "gestalt processing systems" for society (systems to connect gestalts split across people’s heads to enable collaborative cognition, creativity and more)	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
5	What does this mean? Explain gestalts - give shortened explanation from this paper	docs.google.com	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
6	Show the Kanisza Triangle illusion (Fig 1) and explain how it arises from brain's desire to "close an open gestalt,"	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
7	Define open-gestalts more broadly by generalizing analogy with the triangle: open gestalts are anything that tug on your attention, from being hungry and wanting to eat, to finishing a musical chord progression, to wanting to implement an idea (“Chekov’s Gun”)	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
8	In fact, the gestalt psychologists claim that all human motivation can be thought of as that to close open gestalts! Put another way, one way to define a minds as a gestalt processing system	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
9	If “analogy is the core of cognition,” this system is the analogy engine for the global mind.	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
10	I hypothesize that this type of system is the “hybrid car” for true Artificial Intelligence, the intermediate step.	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
11	In the past, the scientists and entrepreneurs -- you and I -- were like Indiana Jones, scouring the Earth, traveling vast distances to conferences to perchance stumble across intellectual soulmates. It felt like a crazy hair-brained quest.	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
12	This is what life has always been like on Earth up until now, covered as it is by the fog of non-connection. This is a world that is not rational: a world that has wars and people working redundantly on the same projects, siloed off in different locations. and ignorant of each other and their overlapping ideas. The global mind is here, but it's really scatterbrained.	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
13	A world that is -- to use my favorite Swahili word, “shagalabagala”-- meaning chaotic or disorganized.	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
14	Ironically, I only met 2/3 of my current teammates/investors from a chance introduction from friends in Silicon Valley	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
15	it's because we experience of the impact of random connections like this on our lives that we get nervous about big decisions in our lives (e.g. university decisions), and have existential crises	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
16	But if societal gestalt processing system tool had existed, it wouldn't have mattered whatsoever where I would've gone to university!	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
17	This short-circuits deep questions of philosophy by removing the cause of such existential tension	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
18	You don’t have to stress out as much when the critical connections that might be life changing are going to happen anyway .(because the world is organized)	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
19	This project is different from all others because it transcends and includes them. Every project that happens becomes a node in this graph. This is the Internet self-reflecting, become conscious of itself.	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
20	Oftentimes, people hold the pieces to each other's puzzles without knowing about it.	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
21	As Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web: said "There are millions of scientists trying to cure the likes of AIDS and Alzheimer's. Maybe the cure is currently separated in different people's heads. How can we design the web so that these half-formed solutions can come together?"	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
22	Half the conversations I have about ideas (e.g. for programming projects) reduce to: I have an idea, and my friend says “have you heard of this related idea, or this related person?”	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
23	"analogy is the core of cognition."	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
24	Ideaflow is the internet doing noting meditation	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
25	"Noting" meditation #write	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
26	And it’s literally also a notetaking system	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai
27	Emerging space of Tools for thought	—	—	—	inherit	listhub.globalbr.ai

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