CNL-FN-2025-015 Field Notes

The House of Mind: Visualizing a Semantic Engine

Published: December 9, 2025 Version: 1

Abstract

This note captures an emerging conceptual architecture for visualizing a semantic knowledge base of approximately 600 diverse passages, each tagged with five or more descriptive terms. The central insight is a spatial metaphor: the *house of mind*, where the exterior presents discrete passages as a tiled surface (wallpaper), while the interior reveals tag relationships as navigable constellations. This dual-modality approach distinguishes between artifact and association, between what has been made and how thought actually moves.

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AI Collaboration Disclosure

Claude (Anthropic ) — Analysis

This field note was developed through evening dialogue with Claude (Anthropic). The conversation explored visualization concepts for a semantic engine built around personal passages. The author takes full responsibility for the conceptual framework and its articulation.

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(2025). "The House of Mind: Visualizing a Semantic Engine." Canemah Nature Laboratory Field Notes CNL-FN-2025-015. https://canemah.org/archive/CNL-FN-2025-015

BibTeX

@techreport{cnl2025house, author = {}, title = {The House of Mind: Visualizing a Semantic Engine}, institution = {Canemah Nature Laboratory}, year = {2025}, number = {CNL-FN-2025-015}, month = {december}, url = {https://canemah.org/archive/document.php?id=CNL-FN-2025-015}, abstract = {This note captures an emerging conceptual architecture for visualizing a semantic knowledge base of approximately 600 diverse passages, each tagged with five or more descriptive terms. The central insight is a spatial metaphor: the *house of mind*, where the exterior presents discrete passages as a tiled surface (wallpaper), while the interior reveals tag relationships as navigable constellations. This dual-modality approach distinguishes between artifact and association, between what has been made and how thought actually moves.} }

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