Fiction. It is. Really. The encounter with the Specifying Integrating Generalizing Mass Array took place not in Sigma’s supercooled chamber, but through the laptop. My interview with Sigma was full of irony. I was yet another person asking an artificial intelligence, “Are AI’s sentient?” I hoped I was not being rude. “Of course not…

Developing Your Working Short-Term Memory TL;DR — Remembering the top three cards in a deck can help you remember why you went into the kitchen. You know the issue. You got up and went into another room for… for what? What was it? It’s a short-term memory issue. You just…

This morning the SIP meditation came up with the Latin word “Receptaculum.” It means pretty much what receptacle means in English — “one that receives and contains something, container.” Beware of that “pretty much”, though — it will come back to give us new meanings. And “one that receives and…

Walking beside the metaphorical ocean, listening to the waves strike the coast then retreat, lost in thought about a project I was trying to wrestle into success, there was a voice: If you let go of this week’s wave, it will subside into the sea and again arise, it…

I have data in Obsidian, the note-making and linking program. I would like to gather it, process it and write it back into Obsidian in a form the program can use. Or maybe take it off for other uses. Hmmm, well I hear that Obsidian was written with Typescript using…

Obsidian is fun. When you see the sprawling network of associations that can arise between notes, you think, “This is going to be SO FERTILE…” Especially if you read the enthusiastic writings of Obsidian mavens like Eleanor Konik you hope it really will be second brain.

I had free time, blessed free time, and I wanted to know what to do with it. And my cognition, my awareness was stuck. It was jammed in the back and back sides of my skull. I knew that I was not going to get anything done until I dealt with…

Introspection and Memory When we talk about Artificial Intelligence, do we mean intelligence like ours? Of all the many ways we are aware, there are two that are central — introspection and memory. It is not that those are the most important. It is that they are the two that tell us what…