Discipline map
Disciplines & bridges
Chemistry
253 concepts
Recurring models: Energy transformation · Scale · Stocks and flows
Bridges to: Biology (66), Physics (58), Inorganic Chemistry (51), Organic Chemistry (34), Physical Chemistry (26), Biochemistry (22)
Biology
234 concepts
Recurring models: Feedback loop · Networks · Energy transformation
Bridges to: Cell Biology (104), Ecology (100), Microbiology (67), Chemistry (66), Biochemistry (59), Evolutionary Biology (52)
Physics
201 concepts
Recurring models: Energy transformation · Waves · Oscillation
Bridges to: Mechanics (75), Astronomy (60), Acoustics (58), Chemistry (58), Electromagnetism (49), Music (49)
Geology
The science of the Earth's solid materials, its structure, and the processes that shape rocks, landscapes, and the planet over time.
136 concepts
Recurring models: Stocks and flows · Levels & hierarchy · Scale
Bridges to: Mineralogy (111), Earth & Space Sciences (65), Volcanology (17), Seismology (13), Geomorphology (11), Paleontology (9)
Mineralogy
111 concepts
Bridges to: Geology (111), Earth & Space Sciences (14), Materials Science (5), Materials Engineering (4), Chemistry (1), Engineering (1)
Microbiology
The study of microorganisms — bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi and protists — their structure, metabolism, genetics, ecology and their roles in health, disease and the environment.
90 concepts
Recurring models: Stocks and flows · Triangulation · Defense in depth
Bridges to: Biology (67), Medicine (41), Ecology (38), Public Health (25), Genetics (19), Biochemistry (13)
Astronomy
The science of objects and phenomena beyond Earth, such as stars, planets, galaxies, and the structure and history of the universe.
88 concepts
Recurring models: Scale · Energy transformation · Waves
Bridges to: Physics (60), Astrophysics (35), Cosmology (20), Relativity (17), Planetary Science (13), Astrobiology (8)
Earth & Space Sciences
85 concepts
Recurring models: Stocks and flows · Feedback loop · Thresholds & tipping points
Bridges to: Geology (65), Meteorology (43), Geography (28), Atmospheric Science (24), Physics (24), Oceanography (22)
The map of fields
How the atlas distributes across fields — counts from the graph, not a ranking of importance.
across 9 of 9 families
253 concepts
median 15 concepts per lens
Distribution across families
Number of covered disciplines in each family of knowledge.
The least-siloed fields
Disciplines that bridge into the most other fields.
The deepest lenses
Disciplines that illuminate the most concepts — depth of coverage, not importance.
Disciplines are not silos
Disciplines with the most shared mechanisms in the current slice — the pairs the knowledge graph connects most.
- Geology ↔ Mineralogy · 111 shared links
- Biology ↔ Cell Biology · 104 shared links
- Biology ↔ Ecology · 100 shared links
- Music ↔ Music Theory · 81 shared links
- Mechanics ↔ Physics · 75 shared links
- Biology ↔ Microbiology · 67 shared links
- Biology ↔ Chemistry · 66 shared links
- Earth & Space Sciences ↔ Geology · 65 shared links
About this view
Thinking OS treats a discipline as a lens, not an owner. The taxonomy knows many disciplines; only some are yet covered by canonical concepts. Below are the covered disciplines, how many concepts each illuminates, and which other disciplines they bridge to.
The taxonomy spans 274 disciplines, all content-covered — from core field to frontier.
A discipline does not own a concept — it illuminates one. The same concept appears under every lens that lights it.