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Knowledge Federation ideogram
René Descartes pointed out in his last and unfinished work Rules for the Direction of the Mind as Rule One: “The objective of studies needs to be to direct the mind so that it bears solid and true judgments about everything that presents itself to it.” What makes knowledge federation work is the (general-purpose) polyscopic methodology—which (unlike "the scientific method") can be applied to any theme.
Albert Einstein explained his "epistemological credo" in Autobiographical Notes:
“I see on the one side the totality of sense experiences and, on the other, the totality of the concepts and propositions that are laid down in books. […] The system of concepts is a creation of man, together with the rules of syntax, which constitute the structure of the conceptual system. […] All concepts, even those closest to experience, are from the point of view of logic freely chosen posits, just as is the concept of causality, which was the point of departure for [scientific] inquiry in the first place.”
The Knowledge Federation ideogram comprises the realm of experience or "the real world" on its left, the realm of ideas on its right, the bridge (representing polyscopic methodology) joining those two sides and the mountainin the background.
We may begin to federate knowledge by looking at the realm of experience or "the real world" from the mountain; and identifying a theme that demands attention; and then take that theme over the bridge to the realm of ideas, along with the data that might provide it a suitable context; and theorize it—in the context of other ideas—and comprehend it; and then take the result back over the bridge and act in an informed way.
"The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth", Morpheus told Neo; to introduce him to the dystopian vision that The Matrix epitomized. As long as "the world" is our only reference—we can only adapt to it; no matter how dysfunctional and outright harmful our systems may have become! And it is only when we have an independent reference system—that we become capable of improving the world.
Science gave us "Newton's laws" and other "laws of nature"; and empowered us to comprehend the natural world in terms of simple insights and principles. Knowledge federation empowers us to comprehend all themes in the way we can rely on.