The Role of Content Addressability in Context Units: Building Distributed Knowledge Systems
A technical exploration of how content-addressable storage principles enable robust, distributed knowledge management through immutable context units
Introduction
When we think about things our knowledge flows like water - it's hard to grasp why we know something or where we learned it (we sometimes don't stop to think about if it is even true), yet we are able to draw conclusions that we "think" are right. If we later ask "why did I think that" we can rationalize our thought process to explain/convince others, but that is usually done in hindsight. We like to think that logic and reason guided us to a conclusion, but most of our decisions are just made by our gut and we then justify them later. The more often we turn out to be right the less we are challenged and the more confident we are in our thinking.