The Overview Effect
A cognitive shift reported by astronauts viewing Earth from space. Seeing our planet as a fragile blue marble floating in darkness triggers profound feelings of unity, interconnectedness, and responsibility for protecting our shared home.
Semantically Similar
Concepts with related meaning based on vector similarity
Synesthesia
A neurological phenomenon where stimulation of one sense triggers automatic experiences in another. Some people see colors when hearing music, or taste shapes. It reveals how our brains construct real...
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
A cognitive bias where people with limited knowledge overestimate their competence, while experts underestimate theirs. It explains why beginners often feel confident while masters remain humble—we do...
The Butterfly Effect
The concept that small causes can have large effects in complex systems. A butterfly flapping its wings might ultimately influence a distant hurricane. It illustrates chaos theory and the interconnect...
Cognitive Bias
Systematic patterns of deviation from rational judgment. Our brains use mental shortcuts that sometimes lead to errors—like confirmation bias, anchoring, or the availability heuristic. Understanding t...
Emergence
When complex patterns arise from simple rules and interactions. Ant colonies exhibit intelligence no single ant possesses. Consciousness emerges from neurons. Cities from individuals. The whole become...
How similarity is calculated
Each concept is converted into a 768-dimensional vector using the nomic-embed-text
model. Similarity scores are calculated using cosine similarity—measuring the angle between vectors.
A score of 100% means identical meaning; lower scores indicate decreasing semantic relatedness.