Narsil
A living encyclopedia of human knowledge
Every field of inquiry, refracted through six modes of knowing — and computed upon. An engine for turning scattered knowledge back into structure.
The Five Domains
All of human inquiry, sorted into five domains — each bound to one of Plato's five solids.
Formal Sciences
tetrahedronThe bedrock layer — abstract structure, formal system, and necessary inference. Mathematics, logic, computation, and systems theory: the languages in which every other domain is written.
Natural Sciences
cubeReality measured. Matter, energy, life, and the laws they obey — knowledge sampled from an inexhaustible world and compressed into law.
Applied Sciences
icosahedronKnowledge turned into capability. Scientific law bent toward design — circuits, processors, machines, and materials built to a purpose, under constraint.
Social Sciences
octahedronThe human collective as a system. Value, mind, language, law, and power — the emergent order of people acting together, and the forces that bind and divide them.
Humanities
dodecahedronThe pursuit of meaning. Existence, beauty, memory, and myth — the questions that remain after everything measurable has been measured.
Six Modes of Knowing
Every field is refracted through six lenses — six historical answers to one question: what does it mean to know? The same idea becomes a different kind of object in each.
Forms
What is its essence — the irreducible elements and ideal forms? The first-principles lens of Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle.
Deductive
What are the axioms and definitions, and what follows necessarily from them? Knowledge as proof — Euclid and the logicians.
Experimental
What can be measured, and what causes what? Knowledge sampled from nature by evidence — Bacon and Galileo.
Algorithmic
What is the procedure — inputs, steps, outputs? Knowledge as an executable construction — al-Khwarizmi and Turing.
Systematic
What are the stocks, flows, feedback loops, and equilibria? Knowledge as dynamics — Wiener and Forrester.
Engineering
How do we control it, optimize it, trade off, and make it robust? Knowledge as design under constraints.
A Machine, Not an Archive
The six modes aren't only prose. Every note stores the same structure as typed, machine-readable atoms — so the encyclopedia can reason over itself: deduce what follows, simulate what moves, and let you walk through what it knows.
Construct
Deductive workbenchPick premises from a field and watch them chain to their conclusion — or check an equation symbolically.
Simulate
Simulation playgroundTurn a field's stock-and-flow model into something living: pull a lever and watch it settle into a new equilibrium.
Explore
The memory palaceWalk the knowledge graph as a memory palace in 3D and VR — every note a room, every relation a piece of architecture, every lens a biome.