The more details one knows about a certain concept , the less easy it is to connect it to other concepts that might enrich its meaning. The idea becomes like a rock, hardened and difficult to chip into a useful tool. Unless of course you have a tool that makes these connections for you .
Around the turn of the millennium I found something that did indeed evolve into such a tool, and I named it the sevensphere because it consists of seven spheres, a lot like the seven rocks the man in the image is contemplating.
Over time I found that the pattern had ingrained itself into my mind , making me think in terms of its shape when considering concepts and processes. It does lean on George Miller's 1956 paper that mentioned human short term memory limit is about 7 items, plus or minus 2. Later research suggests humans can only correctly remember 3 to 5 chunks of information , depending on the information . If not chunked, it is around 7 for digits, 6 for letters, and 5 for words .
But what if we have a structure to connect those items which is not a linear progression, but a cyclical or even multidimensional one? The SevenSphere is such a connector, as it can be viewed in several ways:
