Autistic Savant
Alexandre Yenni sent this link my way for digestive purposes. It is an eloquent relfection on the purpose the internet will/could take as our modern life clicks along. Follow the link for the full piece. I have included some quotes below.
I once Was Lost but Now Am Found, or How to Navigate in the Chartroom of Memory
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“In Funes’s world, reflection makes no sense at all, as there is simply no time or motive to reflect or interpret.”
“The internet is displacing the role of memory, and it does so immaculately.”
“Any imaginable detail about the many dimensions of any experience is either recorded or consumed as yet another fragment of reality.”
“Is the web yet another model of reality, or is reality becoming a model of the Web?”
“ It achieves the state of being more real than real, as there is no reality left to chart.”
“One cannot afford to get lost in a space so perfectly detailed and predictable.”
“If one believes that the wetware source of intellectual production, whether in the arts or sciences, is guided by the ability to critically model reality, to scale information, and to engage in abstract thought, where are we heading in the age of the internet?”
“Between the associative nature of memory and the referential eminence of the map lies a blueprint for the brain.”
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