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Old 06-16-2008, 07:31 PM
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Wikipedia and the interconnectedness of all knowledge

I had to do the ultimate experiment on Wikipedia:


It took 3 clicks to get from Chocolate Brownies to Hitler.

It took 6 clicks to get from Cheetos to Attila the Hun.

It took 3 clicks to get from to Louis Baraguey de Hilliers, a Napoleonic general, to the Smurfs, a cheesy cartoon from my childhood.


Is everything we know in this world THAT immediately related? What does that mean for our cognitive need to categorize things?
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