Foundations of Energy
How energy is stored, transferred and transformed — from falling objects to living cells.
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5 concepts viewed through this lens. Bridge concepts connect this view to Aesthetics, Agriculture, Archaeology, Biology….
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- Focused concept
- Connected concept
- Bridge concept (just outside the lens)
- Arrow points from cause / source to effect / target
- A line with no arrow is a two-way relationship
- Node colour marks the concept’s primary discipline
5 concepts4 relationships12 disciplines3 relation families
Emotion in music
Open concept →At a glance
Why music can make us feel things — a mix of biology, expectation and culture.
- Disciplines
- Cognitive Science · Culture · Cultural Studies · Anthropology · Performing Arts · Music
- Role in the graph
- Cross-disciplinary bridge — reaches Aesthetics, Biology, Industrial Design, Mathematics, Music Theory, Philosophy
- Relationships
- 4 · 3 relation families
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In this lens (5)
- Network16illuminated by this discipline
- illuminated by this discipline
- illuminated by this discipline
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Bridge concepts (22)
Just outside the lens — they connect it to other context.
- Aesthetics, Industrial Design, Philosophy · connects to Emotion in music
- Biology, Zoology · connects to Homo sapiens
- Archaeology · connects to Network
- Biology, Cognitive Science · connects to Emotion in music
- Computer Science · connects to Network
Insights from this view
Structural observations about the concepts shown here — descriptions of this graph, not claims about the world.
- This view connects 12 disciplines: Aesthetics, Anthropology, Biology, Cognitive Science, Cultural Studies, Culture, Industrial Design, Mathematics, Music, Music Theory, Performing Arts, Philosophy.
- Emotion in music is a bridge concept — viewed here through Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Cultural Studies, Culture, Music, Performing Arts.
- The connections here span 3 relation families.
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The focused concept’s relationships. Pick another concept in the graph above to update this list.
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Bayesian updatingCause and effectCompoundingConservationConstraintsDefense in depthDiffusion & spreadEmergenceEnergy transformationEntropy & irreversibilityEquilibriumFeedback loopIncentivesInformationLevels & hierarchyModularityNetworksOptimizationOscillationProbabilityRecursion & self-similarityScaleSignal vs noiseSource–pathway–receptorStocks and flowsSymmetry & invarianceThresholds & tipping pointsTrade-offsTriangulationVariation & selectionWaves
Concept collections
Concept collections are curated lenses onto the fabric — themed sets of ideas that recur across disciplines. They are not journeys; they are a way to read the graph.
Understanding Systems
Stocks, flows and feedback — why wholes behave in ways their parts do not.
Patterns Everywhere
Regularities that recur across maths, music, nature and art.
How Information Moves
Encoding, signals and noise — the same idea in computers, genes and nerves.
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What this is
Start from one concept and expand outward. The view never shows everything at once — click a node to refocus, filter by relationship type, or switch to an accessible list.
One fabric
3750 concepts and 5051 typed relations form one connected component — no isolated silo.
How to read it
Focus a concept, or apply a lens (discipline, mental model, journey) to see only the threads that matter.