Ian's Noesis Wiki

3 min read

Wiki Schema

Domain

Research philosophy, epistemology, and academic methodology — plus neuroscience, ophthalmology, and vision science. Covers philosophy of science, historiography, probability/reasoning frameworks, critical analysis of scholarly methods, and clinical/translational neuroscience research. Also covers cell biology, evolutionary biology, marine microbiology, and a BCI/neuroprosthetics domain: brain-computer interfaces, neural engineering, and vision restoration (retinal and cortical visual prostheses), plus wearable AR/VR technology, machine perception, and Chinese intellectual-property law and patent practice.

Conventions

  • File names: lowercase, hyphens, no spaces (e.g., bayesian-epistemology.md)
  • Every wiki page starts with YAML frontmatter (see below)
  • Use [[wikilinks]] to link between pages (minimum 2 outbound links per page)
  • When updating a page, always bump the updated date
  • Every new page must be added to index.md under the correct section
  • Every action must be appended to log.md
  • Provenance markers: On pages that synthesize 3+ sources, cite claims with GFM footnotes — [^1] at the end of the paragraph, definitions ([^1]: [[raw/articles/source-file]]) collected at the page bottom. Renders in Quartz; Pandoc-style ^[…] inline notes do not — do not use them. Optional on single-source pages.

Frontmatter

---
title: Page Title
created: YYYY-MM-DD
updated: YYYY-MM-DD
type: entity | concept | comparison | query | summary
tags: [from taxonomy below]
sources: [raw/articles/source-name.md]
confidence: high | medium | low
contested: true
contradictions: [other-page-slug]
---

raw/ Frontmatter

---
source_url: https://example.com/article
ingested: YYYY-MM-DD
sha256: <hex digest>
---

Tag Taxonomy

  • Philosophy: epistemology, philosophy-of-science, metaphysics, logic, ethics, functionalism, philosophy-of-mind, philosophy-of-perception, linguistics, cognitive-science, philosophy-of-physics
  • Physics: quantum-mechanics, quantum-information, decoherence, measurement-problem, locality, determinism, wave-function
  • Probability & Reasoning: bayesian, frequentist, probability, induction, abduction
  • Methods: historiography, scientific-method, statistics, modeling, evidence, animal-models, behavioral-assay, translational, pre-clinical
  • Domains: theology, apologetics, miracles, supernatural, naturalism
  • People: person, philosopher, historian, theologian, scientist, company, institute
  • Neuroscience: vision, strabismus, oculomotor, binocular-vision, vergence, neuroplasticity, cerebellum, cortex, brainstem, depression, cognition, affect, reward, memory, cognitive-flexibility, executive-function, neurodegenerative, multiple-sclerosis, parkinson, alzheimer, ALS, dementia, huntington, computational-neuroscience, neural-networks, neuromorphic, scale-space, natural-scenes, fmri, electrophysiology, neuropixels, inferotemporal-cortex, cross-species, primate, active-inference, reinforcement-learning, reward-learning, free-energy-principle, sound-symbolism, synesthesia, gestalt-psychology, stimulus-design, psychophysics, consciousness, philosophy-of-mind, brain-waves, ephaptic-coupling, analog-computation, spatial-computing
  • Clinical: ophthalmology, diagnosis, treatment, surgery, botulinum-toxin, vision-therapy, epidemiology, classification, psychiatry, pharmacology, congenital, syringomyelia, hydrocephalus
  • Technology: digital-devices, VR, AI, eye-tracking, digital-therapeutics, screening, biomarker, agi, prediction, open-source, bci, brain-computer-interface, neural-interface, neuroprosthesis, retinal-prosthesis, cortical-prosthesis, visual-cortex, LGN, thalamus, implant, bioelectronics, vision-restoration, regulatory, clinical-trial, gene-therapy, patent, photoacoustic, nanoprosthesis, eu-grant, funding, smart-glasses, smart-contact-lens, augmented-reality, head-mounted-display, machine-perception, waveguide, retinal-projection
  • Biology: cell-biology, evolution, endosymbiosis, organelle, symbiosis, nitrogen-fixation, cyanobacteria, algae, marine-biology, microbiology, genome
  • Meta: critique, controversy, comparison, consensus, overview

Rule: every tag on a page must appear in this taxonomy. Add new tags here first.

Page Thresholds

  • Create a page when an entity/concept appears in 2+ sources OR is central to one source
  • Add to existing page when a source mentions something already covered
  • DON’T create a page for passing mentions or minor details
  • Split a page when it exceeds ~200 lines
  • Archive a page when fully superseded — move to _archive/, remove from index

Update Policy

When new information conflicts with existing content:

  1. Check dates — newer sources generally supersede
  2. If genuinely contradictory, note both positions with dates and sources
  3. Mark contradiction in frontmatter
  4. Flag for user review in lint report

Graph View