Now let me just make a few comments and then have a little dialogue to get this started if I may. If we look at DARPA’s crowdsourcing exploits to design a Humvee replacement prototype or think about how Black Projects breaks things down into components, where those working on a given part don’t have the whole picture, but an idea of ​​at least at least Minus some of what they’re doing, we see similarities in how the brain processes information along the pathways.

Similarly, a large company working on a personal technology device might have 500 vendors, none of whom have any idea what the final product might look like or actually look like, although some of the larger component manufacturers might have. a pretty good idea.

Next, in this case, I’d like to introduce the “Banyan Tree” model, and if you’ve ever been to Hilo Bay on the Big Island of Hawaii, you can see that this makes a lot of sense. Large above-ground roots in a solid trunk, which branches off with smaller upright trunk-like pieces. In many ways, this is similar to an autistic brain, but it’s even better because of all the auxiliary support systems that provide nutrients.

Now if we wanted to visualize this in a more systematic way, think of an hourglass as the log with thorns going from above and below. Think of the hourglass as a piece of transparent graph paper—something like Einstein’s theory of gravity, but as a black hole with an entrance and an exit, and then stringers. Then put horizontal rings, also on a more separate grid at the ends near the center – trunk.

That’s the model I would use for the crowdsourcing mind map to keep the data together, to allow for drift. Lastly, place the branches of the tree of science that sprout from each of the grid lines on top, perhaps like Stephen Wolfram’s Mathematica: leaves, branches, smaller and smaller for each possible niche of science. . Leaf masters are those who work at the very forefront of all “pure research” science and that needs to be carefully monitored, but everyone can access the trunk and input information. Those with significant abilities, but not in the sciences or research, can access the masters of the blade, but through the information stringers before the scions.

All the system needs to do is track the work of the leaf masters, ask questions, maybe some trackers (insects, birds, tree shrews) can connect the dots, only a few who know the totality of what they are trying to do. Since the science tree or crowdsourced model contains all the information, the highest level of current human knowledge, it wouldn’t matter what you wanted to achieve, create or discover, as you would have one person to turn to or a master of knowledge. sheet. for any particular need, so you could run thousands of projects, invest in pure research, and solve any problem or meet any urgent need.

If I were Google X, IBM, Intel, DARPA, DuPont, 3M, Northrop, Boeing, Lockheed, GE, or any of the others, this is how I would be organizing information, and encouraging the flow of that knowledge, throughout the Bayan Tree. : Plus, it’s so simple I could explain it to anyone in an elevator pitch.

Any thoughts on the Banyan Tree model, if so please email me and in the meantime consider all this and think about it.