Viktor Bedõ:

The aim of my work-in-progress report is the delineation of the main questions and bearings of my masters thesis The Visualisation of Knowledge and Information.

In my work I proceed from the network-like arrangement of knowledge, which I base on the analysis of neurobiological and information technological processes and their analogy and/or interrelation with mind.
The expansion of computer technology not only breeds the quantitative increase of widely accessible information, but also the possibilities of new arrangements. Since new archiving and communication technologies give us the capability to dispose things surrounding us – which more and more means information – in more unbound systems organised by us, it seems obvious that these systems can bring on a higher level of anthropomorphic habitability in our world. This phenomenon is already proceeding, becoming researchable, yet we can follow the policy of advancing it. 

At that point the question concerning the correlation between neurophysiological processes and human consciousness rises. For the examination of this question we will use the supposition of Searle to the effect that mind is the representation of neurobiological processes and the work of Barsalou who approaches the problem from the aspect of perception. 

In the research of systems akin to human thinking I see the main aspect in mapping the constantly changing connections of the network and the localisation of junctions. These tasks require new approaches concerning our system of notions because of their complexity. To deal with this tasks we need faster and more direct tools than written or spoken text, which we can develop by changing our habits of reception by moving from a description of networks to the depicting of networks.