intelligence is not defined by what a system stores or how it computes, but by what it can access and stage into use under constraints of cost, availability, and time. Storage is cheap. Computation is cheaper still. The real bottleneck—the hard part—is memory access. And where the cost is, intelligence is. ... What remains expensive—financially,... See more

Saturday morning. Not quite ready for coffee from the espresso machine. Eyes closed. Brooding over the thises and thats. Remembering the start of a thread of thought that wove forward and backwards over the last couple of days. Now trying to remember and writing some of it down. On Memory and Forgetting Nils Peterson 12.1.2024

In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows. Mother tongue 2.3.2025 Aeon Video

We pray: ... “Remember me, O Lord, in Thy Kingdom.” The Frightful Path of Judas Fr. Stephen 4.17.2025

Memory and imagination are twins, in that they are both vulnerable to the distorting forces of great emotion

Touching Words: on Poetry in Memoir TJ Price 3.11.2025

I’m only beginning to dimly grasp the contours of this unfolding transformation, but some axioms for my personal philosophy of it are already clear.

Text and static images, “objectively” manipulated using chat-like tools, are relatively weak entry drugs for creating strong hive minds; much more potent stuff is coming

“Intelligence” as such does not... See more

[Shared Memories]

The way we remember the events that happen on the internet is different than reading a book. Information circulates and gets stored in a way that incorporates personal narratives as documentation, combining textuality with elements of oral storytelling. Bits of text and image serve as artifacts that help piece together complex... See more

In the past (particularly in my Breaking Smart essays), I have referred to technologies that induce cosmopolises as soft technologies, but now I prefer the term memory technologies. While all technologies leave traces behind that can be “read” as texts, not all technologies induce intentional modes of remembering and knowing, or new modes of... See more

The End is working within us, creating new heavens and a new earth. Our “remembering” in the Liturgy is nothing less than calling down into our midst that very thing. It is in that light that we forgive one another – everyone for everything. We love one another even as Christ loves us. We invoke the peace of Christ which is the Kingdom that is to... See more