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

[cultural memory]

This protean online identity-building exemplifies how the internet has altered the mechanics of cultural memory in the past 30 years. Content can live forever on the internet, and at this point we have a mountain of it >30 years deep. But the massive amount of information makes it harder to glean any coherent grand narrative... See more

Memory is a shifting thing. I recall the first time I heard my mother share something as happening to her that, in fact, happened to me (if I’m remembering correctly). My older brother and I, when swapping stories, frequently discover that our memories of the same events are different. I’m certain that he is wrong. The truth is, we can only... 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

My current view is that we’ve discovered a kind of natural universal memory phenomenon that’s a property of all matter, living and non-living. A natural tendency of information to get tangled up with space, time, and matter that allows it to become experientially self-reporting. It’s weird to think of memory outside of the context of living beings... 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

This suite of mnemonic devices and formalized bodily movements stabilized epics as rhythmic, visceral performance, while limiting the ways one telling might vary from another. These were the original technologies for outsourcing memory. Gif Horse: Gifs reiterate an oral tradition as old as The Odyssey Britney Gil 9.7.2016

As a matter of fact, to translate this into the language we use, which is a faculty psychology language – the two key faculties which stand between the objective and the subjective are memory and imagination. These are terms that go back again, as we mentioned before, to Leo the Thirteenth and nineteenth century. This was his promotion of Thomas... See more

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