The House of Mind: Visualizing a Semantic Engine
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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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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Permanent URL: https://canemah.org/archive/document.php?id=CNL-FN-2025-015