Connections
Neural networks like the brain work by creating connections between concepts called associations.
Human networks like society work by creating connections between people called relationships.
The Connections Are the Argument
The biggest persuasive argument for the perspective being presented by this wiki is how it relates all of the important concepts in psychology, sociology, spirituality, and science to universal themes of evolution and emergence. Seeing this applied to a few concepts is not nearly as powerful as seeing it applied to hundreds. The hyperlinks help you visualize the connections between them.
There is also the interdependency of many ideas, where understanding one is a necessary prerequisite for understanding many others. There are circular dependencies, too, which are hard to explain in a linear format. You have to know what language is to understand allegory, and understanding allegory gives you a more nuanced understanding of language. There are many such examples, and the wiki format encourages you to explore an idea, and then explore it again in a new light later after learning something related.
The holistic vision of a self-organizing fractal universe will self-organize in the brain once it has made enough of these connections. You simply need to explore and let your interests take you wherever they lead.
James Burke's Connections
One of the goals of this wiki is to demonstrate the way that everything and everyone is connected, and how various concepts connect to each other. That makes this page a perfect opportunity to introduce one of the all-time greatest docuseries on connections. This playlist contains series 1 and 2, and some other classic Burke BBC specials.
Musical Connections
Every concept has a song about it, and many of us have very musical internal monologues. Songs associated with ideas, emotions, life events, people, places, etc. play in our minds whenever