The bas-relief work, statues, and inscriptions of great European cathedrals are microcosms of Christianity, recapitulating the Gospel and other key biblical narratives as well as the histories of their own creation as enduring and complete statements of faith. Contemporary computational systems perform the same role of presenting a unified vision of the world through clean interfaces and carefully curated data—everything you might want to know, now available as an app. Computation offers a pathway for consilience, or the unification of all fields of knowledge into a single tree: an ontology of
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