Cross-domain discovery engine/beta
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Every point is a piece of published work; every cluster, a field that grew on its own, in its own vocabulary. The library has never had corridors — this is Intercognix looking for the crossings.
In 1986, two medical literatures — dietary fish oil, Raynaud's syndrome — had never cited each other. Read together, they implied a treatment; a trial confirmed it three years later. Seismology's aftershock model beat trained analysts at forecasting burglary. Spin-glass physics explained how a protein finds its fold. Every time, both halves were already published. Only the bridge was missing.
Intercognix goes looking on purpose. Give it a problem you are stuck on: it searches deliberately distant fields for a mechanism that fits, carries it back into your terms, and hands it to an independent reviewer that tries to break it. What survives carries a measurable variable, a decisive test, and the observation that would kill it.
Not a summary. Not an answer. A proposal you can test — or discard in an afternoon, which is equally the point.
Access is granted to researchers. The engine is in beta and in active development; the people running expeditions now are shaping what it becomes.