# General Knowledge Hub > [!Note] > Hub for the General Knowledge domain — scientific and humanistic fields that fall > outside AI, Computer Science, and Photography. Populated from the *Polymatas* reading > set: Physics, Biology, Psychology, Philosophy, Economics, and Systems thinking. --- ## 1. Physics ### Foundational Frameworks - [[General Relativity]] - [[Quantum Mechanics]] - [[Wave-Particle Duality]] - [[Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle]] ### Particles and Fields - [[Photon]] - [[Standard Model of Particle Physics]] - [[The Four Fundamental Forces]] ### Quantum Gravity and Frontiers - [[The Problem of Quantum Gravity]] - [[Loop Quantum Gravity]] - [[Planck Star and the Big Bounce]] - [[String Theory]] ### Thermodynamics and Time - [[Entropy and the Arrow of Time]] - [[Black Holes and Hawking Radiation]] ### Cosmology - [[Architecture of the Cosmos]] - [[Stellar Nucleosynthesis]] - [[Dark Energy]] --- ## 2. Biology ### Evolution and the Gene - [[Gene-Centred View of Evolution]] - [[The Selfish Gene]] - [[Replicator and Vehicle]] - [[Extended Phenotype]] - [[Kin Selection and Inclusive Fitness]] - [[Evolutionarily Stable Strategy]] - [[Meme]] ### Ecology and Regulation - [[Biological Regulation]] - [[Negative Feedback Regulation]] - [[Keystone Species]] - [[Trophic Cascade]] - [[Carrying Capacity]] - [[The Serengeti Rules (Ecological Laws)]] --- ## 3. Psychology ### Learning and the Brain - [[The Four Pillars of Learning]] - [[Neuronal Recycling]] - [[Brain Plasticity]] - [[Learning as Predictive-Error Minimisation]] - [[Active Engagement and the Testing Effect]] - [[Consolidation and Sleep]] ### Expertise and Breadth - [[Generalists vs Specialists]] - [[Kind vs Wicked Learning Environments]] - [[Late Specialisation and the Sampling Period]] - [[Desirable Difficulties]] - [[Analogical Thinking]] ### Human Nature - [[The Blank Slate Doctrine]] - [[The Noble Savage]] - [[The Ghost in the Machine]] - [[Human Nature and Innateness]] - [[Nature vs Nurture and Behavioural Genetics]] ### Moral Psychology - [[Evolutionary Origins of Morality]] - [[Moralization]] - [[Moral Tribalism]] - [[Sacred Values]] - [[Moral Outrage]] - [[Virtue Signalling]] --- ## 4. Philosophy ### Classical Ideas and Methods - [[The Socratic Method]] - [[Plato's Theory of Forms]] - [[Aristotelian Virtue Ethics]] - [[Cartesian Doubt and the Cogito]] - [[Empiricism vs Rationalism]] - [[Utilitarianism]] - [[The Categorical Imperative]] - [[Existentialism]] ### The Enlightenment and Progress - [[The Four Enlightenment Ideals (Pinker)]] - [[Progress as Empirically Measurable (Pinker)]] - [[Humanism (Pinker)]] - [[The Second Law as Backdrop to Human Progress]] - [[Critiques of the Enlightenment (Pinker)]] --- ## 5. Economics - [[The One Lesson (Seen and Unseen)]] - [[The Broken Window Fallacy]] - [[Opportunity Cost]] - [[Effects of Price Controls]] - [[The Fallacy of Make-Work and Saved Jobs]] --- ## 6. Systems - [[System]] - [[Stocks and Flows]] - [[Feedback Loops]] - [[Leverage Points]] - [[Resilience]] - [[Bounded Rationality]] - [[System Traps and Opportunities]] --- ## 7. Anchor Sources - [[Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Rovelli 2014)]] - [[The Universe in Your Hand (Galfard 2015)]] - [[The Extended Selfish Gene (Dawkins 2016)]] - [[The Serengeti Rules (Carroll 2016)]] - [[How We Learn (Dehaene 2020)]] - [[The Blank Slate (Pinker 2002)]] - [[Range (Epstein 2019)]] - [[The Dangers of Morality (Malo 2021)]] - [[A Little History of Philosophy (Warburton 2011)]] - [[Enlightenment Now (Pinker 2018)]] - [[Economics in One Lesson (Hazlitt 1946)]] - [[Thinking in Systems (Meadows 2008)]]