Is there a descent-of-influence map of European philosophers and scientists starting with say Descartes and Galileo as root nodes? A way to compute a sort of Erdos number of historical idea evolution?
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Replying to @vgr
dude that is literally what the semantic web was built for http://dbpedia.org/sparql/?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&query=select+distinct+%3Fs+where+%7B+%3Fs+a+dbo%3APhilosopher+%7D&format=text%2Fhtml&CXML_redir_for_subjs=121&CXML_redir_for_hrefs=&timeout=30000&debug=on&run=Go …
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Replying to @doriantaylor
I didn’t know this data existed, but I have no idea how to query this Can I for instance find a trace between Leibniz and Bergson somehow, via explicit influence path?
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Replying to @vgr @doriantaylor
you could...you know..read their books? :)
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Replying to @andrewthesmart @doriantaylor
That’s crazy talk. Nobody’s got time for that
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Replying to @vgr @doriantaylor
haha - knowledge compression! Did you ever read Schmidhuber's kind of grandiose theory of all the things https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360
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