Neat! I really like the poetic framing of memory as existing between us and am curious to see how you all explore that space.
This discussion of memory palaces and the method of loci reminds me of proprioception. That has struck me as a fascinating area of human sensemaking. One of my all time favorite books is Brian Rotman’s mathematics as sign which proposes a model of math as an area of a mind moving itself as if it were going through an imagined space subject to certain structures. I wonder if there’s connections there to imagining a mind palace at a brain or math-ey level to throw out a few speculative loose thoughts
I think there is! Topology is math with the geometry abstracted away into a more general notion of "nearness"— given a point, can you always find a "neighborhood" points in the space that contains that point? Information topology is a topic I'd like to drill into.
Poprioceotion is one of those “background hum” aspects of experience that on one hand seems impossible for AI to grasp, but then I remember seeing videos of robots playing soccer. Right now they look very clumsy but it’s easy to imagine them surpassing all human capability in a decade or so.
Neat! I really like the poetic framing of memory as existing between us and am curious to see how you all explore that space.
This discussion of memory palaces and the method of loci reminds me of proprioception. That has struck me as a fascinating area of human sensemaking. One of my all time favorite books is Brian Rotman’s mathematics as sign which proposes a model of math as an area of a mind moving itself as if it were going through an imagined space subject to certain structures. I wonder if there’s connections there to imagining a mind palace at a brain or math-ey level to throw out a few speculative loose thoughts
I think there is! Topology is math with the geometry abstracted away into a more general notion of "nearness"— given a point, can you always find a "neighborhood" points in the space that contains that point? Information topology is a topic I'd like to drill into.
Poprioceotion is one of those “background hum” aspects of experience that on one hand seems impossible for AI to grasp, but then I remember seeing videos of robots playing soccer. Right now they look very clumsy but it’s easy to imagine them surpassing all human capability in a decade or so.