🌳 Concept explorer

A terminal-based tool that visually maps the connections between ideas by exploring diverse related concepts. Starting from a single root concept, it builds an expanding tree of interconnected ideas that span across different domains and intellectual territories.

Features

• Interactive visualization: Watch in real-time as the concept web grows with a dynamic ASCII tree display
• Contextual exploration: Each new concept is generated with awareness of the full path that led to it
• Domain diversity: Encourages cross-disciplinary connections across philosophy, science, art, technology, and more
• Customizable parameters: Control the exploration depth, diversity bias, and model used
• Exportable results: Save the final concept web as a text file for later reference

Requirements

• Python 3.6+
• Ollama running locally with models like Llama3, Qwen, etc.
• Required Python packages:
  • requests
  • networkx
  • colorama
  • shutil

Installation

1. Clone the repo (or just copy the explorer.py code):

   bash git clone https://github.com/UdaraJay/concept-explorer.git cd concept-explorer

2. Create and activate a virtual environment, then install the required dependencies:

   bash python -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate pip install requests networkx colorama

3. You can now run explorer.py while the virtual environment is active:

   bash python explorer.py

4. Ensure Ollama is installed and running with at least one model:

# Install Ollama from https://ollama.ai/
# Pull a model
ollama pull llama3

Usage

Run the concept explorer with default settings:

python explorer.py

Specify a different root concept:

python explorer.py "Time"

Customize multiple parameters:

python explorer.py --root="Emergence" --model="llama3" --diversity=0.9 --depth=100

Command line options

• --root=CONCEPT: The starting concept (default: "Consciousness")
• --model=MODEL: The Ollama model to use (default: "llama3")
• --diversity=FLOAT: Diversity bias between 0.0-1.0 (default: 0.8)
• --depth=INT: Maximum exploration depth (default: 3)

How it works

1. The tool starts with a root concept (e.g., "Consciousness")
2. For each concept, it queries a local LLM via Ollama to generate diverse related concepts
3. The LLM is given the full path context to generate meaningful connections
4. New concepts are added to the tree and visualized in real-time
5. The process continues until the maximum depth is reached
6. The final concept web is saved to a text file

Examples

Starting with "Consciousness" might lead to branches like:

• Consciousness → Qualia → Dance as Embodied Knowledge → Cultural Memory
• Consciousness → Self-Awareness → Machine Sentience → Silicon Ethics
• Consciousness → Altered States → Synesthesia → Multimedia Art

Terminal controls

• Press Ctrl+C to interrupt the exploration and save the current state
• Type reset if your terminal display becomes corrupted after the program exits

Customization

You can modify the prompt template in the get_related_concepts method to adjust how the LLM generates connections.