Integral Encyclopedia
Integral Encyclopedia
We make the truth easily accessible
connecting all the most important knowledge about human and the world.
In our time, the availability of truth, that is, the most advanced and reliable knowledge about man and the world, is a great deficit.
We are convinced that the root of all human troubles is ignorance/delusion. We all make mistakes because we don't know how to do it right. These mistakes cost us and our children dearly.
Everyone can feel this problem especially acutely in such areas as physical and psychological health, healthy nutrition, parenting, human relationships, history.
Most of the essential knowledge already exists, but is difficult to access due to the following properties of the modern information environment:
Fragmentation of information and knowledge
The complexity of the world and information overload
Censorship
Low level of trust
Fragmentation of information and knowledge - A holistic picture must be collected long and hard for each individual person from fragments of books, articles, videos, training courses, consultations on basic ones, and so on. Not everyone has enough time and skills to do it well.
The complexity of the world and information overload - The flow of information is so large that screening out duplicate, low-quality, advertising and unreliable information takes a huge amount of time. It is generally impossible to process the entire flow and understand everything on your own.
Censorship - Most of the information is hidden, as it does not correspond to the ideologies and goals of political systems and platform owners (search engines, social networks, encyclopedias, publishing houses, and so on).
Low level of trust - Politically and economically interested players fill the air with false information and propaganda, the authenticity of which is almost impossible to verify, just as it is impossible to check in advance the professionalism of specialists, their ability to solve customer problems.
As a result, such problems of society arise as: poor health, psychological instability and emotional burnout, unfulfilled personal potential, social disunity and conflicts, crime, wars, and so on.
“We have crossed - no one knows when - the threshold beyond which the mass of accumulated knowledge has outgrown the horizons of any of us and the unstoppable atomization of everything and everything has begun. Not to multiply this knowledge indiscriminately, but first to get rid of their huge deposits, from accumulations of secondary, that is, superfluous, information, in my opinion, this is our first duty. Information technology has created the appearance of a paradise where everyone can learn everything; but this is an illusion. The choice, tantamount to giving up this paradise, is inevitable and necessary, like breathing.”
Stanislav Lem
“I believe in the victory of Truth. I believe that knowledge of nature and its laws will more and more serve the common good of people. Moreover, I am convinced that even today such knowledge leads to this. I believe in the power of the human mind, I believe that the mind will set in motion intelligent selection. I believe that our descendants, in the not so distant future, will be able to fulfill this greatest and most beautiful requirement of true "Humaneness."
Konrad Lorenz
“Human intelligence is somewhat more developed than that of our ape relatives, but we should not exaggerate the size of the cognitive gap. Collectively, we can be very smart and capable of achieving remarkable results, but individually, and especially in isolation from society, we are rather limited beings. This applies even to our so-called geniuses, most of whom are more a product of their historical situation than they would like to admit.”
Merlin Wilfred Donald
We are building a new information environment, the provision of which:
Integrality - the unification of various disciplines and the whole range of views, ideas, models of the world into knowledge systems;
Accessibility - quick access to the most innovative knowledge at the required level of abstraction;
Emergence - natural identification of patterns and universal principles between various scientific disciplines, knowledge models and points of view;
Applicability - direct communication with experts, professionals and their communities to refine theory and help in practice.
We believe that by providing people with access to the truth, we will be able to:
Accelerate progress and cooperation in such areas as science, education, culture, physical and mental health, politics and others;
Raise the maturity of people's thinking;
To improve the well-being of society and the quality of life of each individual;
Unite people and bring more peace to the earth.
To make the truth easily accessible, we will use:
History of the development of ideas to identify cutting-edge knowledge;
Collection and clustering of all points of view on each topic, without excluding any, even the most marginal;
Breaking down knowledge into small blocks for modularity;
Direct access to experts, professionals and their communities for help in theory and practice;
Knowledge visualization.
To motivate authors:
Financial rewards for content authors and monetization of community activities;
Content and authors rating.
To provide censorship protection and minimize the area of influence and rejection points:
Decentralization of ownership and project management;
Open source code.
Our solution will provide such opportunities for users:
Quickly navigate and delve into the area necessary to solve your applied problem;
Get an overview of the topic, understand its boundaries and scope, find out what are the main issues and problems, and what are the most modern solutions;
Get access to primary sources - main literature, scientific articles, key persons;
Get help, both in theory and in practical matters - find experts, communities (including local ones), companies, courses and educational institutions.
Inclusion and integration of all points of view on each topic, without excluding any, even the most marginal (unlike Google and WikiPedia)
Inclusion of content of varying degrees of detail (unlike WikiPedia, where only the top level is presented in the form of articles on topics and the bottom level in the form of links to sources)
IntegralPeida should eventually become a source of knowledge, and not just a pointer to them like WikiPedia (see the WikiPedia rule “Inadmissibility of original research”).
Built-in review system. Because IntegralPedia may include original research, it must go through a peer review process.
Direct communication with professionals and expert communities to clarify theory and help in practice, through community chats on topics, ordering research or private consultations (unlike Google and WikiPedia).
To create content, we are forming thematic expert communities, and a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) will be created to develop and manage the Integral Encyclopedia.
Until the creation of the DAO and the holding of the ICO, most of the work on the Integral Encyclopedia will be done on a voluntary basis.
After that, DAO participants will have the following options:
Submit proposals for the development of the project;
Take part in voting on proposals;
Complete tasks and receive rewards for such work as programming, design, marketing, content production for marketing, and so on;
Participate in DAO tenders and grants and receive income from this activity.
If you want to become one of the first members of the expert community or DAO, please contact us.
Thematic expert communities will be initiated through special conferences. The first such conference will be organized on the topic “Emotional burnout”.
The objectives of the first conference will be:
Create a content prototype on the subject of “Emotional burnout”, which will surpass the quality of materials available on the Internet and other sources;
Gather and check the work of a group of experts interested in further joint work on the project;
Develop and test the basic principles and requirements for content and work on it by expert communities;
Develop and test a methodology for engaging expert communities to work on content.
In order for the Integral Encyclopedia to live and develop, it is necessary to provide sufficient funding for both its operations and expansion of the content base. To do this, we plan to monetize:
Commissions from the services of experts, communities, and companies (for referral programs);
Commissions from research orders;
Commissions from the patronage of experts and communities;
Tools for researchers;
API access;
Contextual advertising.
It is especially important to allow specialists to monetize their author's content, edits of public articles, research, services in order to provide them with the opportunity to meet basic needs through continuous activity for the common good - the development of the Integral Encyclopedia.
To do this, the following types of tokens are planned in the system:
System Token - Integral Pedia Coin (IPC);
NFT content intellectual property rights tokens.
Content NFT owners will be credited with IPC for views of the respective content, and revenues from system monetization will be distributed in proportion to IPC ownership.
The main components of the architecture:
Site - user access to the encyclopedia and its replenishment;
API - programmatic access to structured knowledge;
Distributed information storage;
Blockchain.
Blockchain will provide the following functionality:
Hashing added information to verify authorship;
Digital ID of users with the history of their activities in the system;
Author ratings;
Content ratings;
System tokens.
Read more about the project architecture in our White Paper (coming soon).
1. MVP development
Q4 2022 - Q2 2023
2. Holding the first thematic conference
Q2 - Q3 2023
3. Seed Round
Q3 2023
4. Development of the Alpha version of the product
Q3 - Q4 2023
5. Create a DAO
Q3 - Q4 2023
6. ICO
Q1 - Q2 2024
We invite like-minded people to join the ambitious task, the universal challenge - to create an Integral Encyclopedia with a holistic description of human and the world:
Experts and community leaders who want to be the engines of progress;
The subject areas with which we plan to start are mental health, happiness and the realization of human potential, thinking. Therefore, we invite psychologists, philosophers, coaches and other experts in these fields.
Experts in the field of knowledge management and encyclopedists;
Developers and architects in the fields of Web, Decentralized systems and Machine learning;
Designers
Media experts, influencers, bloggers, …
Investors and philanthropists.