Conceptual Ecosystem Tools
An anthropology of reality: how humans construct, preserve, mutate, and transmit worlds of meaning.
Okay guys! I’ve been building some new tools and thought experiments.
Together, they form a conceptual ecosystem for exploring how humans build realities, preserve them, and pass them on through time.
From environment and kinship to cosmology, memory, institutions, and religion, each tool explores a different layer of the human meaning-making process.
*These tools are best viewed on desktop.
The Cosmology Timeline
The cosmological framework embedded in the Hebrew Bible (the layered earth, the waters above and below, the dome of the sky, the morally responsive land, the divine council) did not emerge in a vacuum.
It preserves memory and meaning-making systems that are far older than the biblical texts themselves.
This timeline explores how ancient Near Eastern cosmology developed, what was inherited, what changed, and how those ideas traveled through time.
https://ylhtools-web.github.io/ylh-tools/cosmology-timeline
The Kinship Engine
Before doctrine, before empire, before theology—there was kinship.
Explore the competing kinship systems of the Bronze and Iron Age Levant and how different societies organized belonging, authority, obligation, land, and the divine.
Three systems. Same territory. Different realities.
https://ylhtools-web.github.io/ylh-tools/kinship-engine-levant.html
The World Builder
A tool for exploring the anthropology of human reality systems.
How do humans construct worlds of meaning?
How do cosmologies, institutions, identities, myths, values, and social structures emerge, mutate, and survive across generations?
https://ylhtools-web.github.io/ylh-tools/worldbuilder.html
Hebrew Cosmology Galaxy
Explore the ancient Hebrew cosmological universe and its interconnected concepts.
Follow the relationships between heaven, earth, land, temple, divine beings, covenant, wisdom, chaos waters, sacred space, and more.
https://ylhtools-web.github.io/ylh-tools/hebrew_cosmology_galaxy
Christianity.exe
Every civilization runs on stories.
Every story runs on assumptions.
Every assumption creates rules.
What happens when Christianity is treated as a reality-programming system?
Explore the governing logic, incentives, values, and social outcomes embedded within the Christian worldview.
https://ylhtools-web.github.io/ylh-tools/christianity-as-program.html
https://ylhtools-web.github.io/ylh-tools/christianity-forks.html
The Memory Machine
How do memories survive migration, conquest, adaptation, and time?
Explore how ideas travel through generations, mutate under pressure, and reappear in new forms.
https://ylhtools-web.github.io/ylh-tools/memory-machine-divine-council.html
Questions, critiques, and observations welcome.
I’m especially interested in where these models succeed, where they fail, and what they help us see that we might otherwise miss.
This is exactly the information I need for my worldview studies!
It'll take me some time to work through all of this, but I'm very excited to dig into this!