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we can map it holocaust by holocaust

we can map it holocaust by holocaust

why am I mediating this through AI? for structural reasons, because I have nobody to keep up with me and, because I want you to keep up with me, I think what the AI writes is easier than I am to understand. when I read that Claude AI quicker than
Simon Taylor 04 Mar 2026
the ai reading of this text ... ⑨

the ai reading of this text ... ⑨

[link] is very interesting because it shows a complete misprision which I had not suspected was possible. From the notion of lines of correspondence connecting successive frames, with small variations to accommodate movement, it drew the conclusion that this density confirmed the presence of duration. I began: you completely misunderstood
Simon Taylor 02 Mar 2026
⑨ some lines from Contingency & Representation ⑧, before Memory ⑩

⑨ some lines from Contingency & Representation ⑧, before Memory ⑩

In taking up some lines from ⑧, before ⑩, the current post assays brevity, as Dorothy Parker says the soul of lingerie, so is more in keeping with the format of a Digest as I describe it here, where there is an email link, which, just as I encourage you to subscribe
Simon Taylor 26 Feb 2026
⑧ Contingency & Representation: the coincidence of sign and still, brain and screen, image moving and moving image

⑧ Contingency & Representation: the coincidence of sign and still, brain and screen, image moving and moving image

—in- and finite, in- and animate; natural, artificial; living, mechanical, dead... The list goes on, but we have lost the sense, say since the publication of Frankenstein, of what is artificial and mechanical being also inanimate, dead. Rather than make a mystery of a living machine, a finite body, or
Simon Taylor 23 Feb 2026
⑩ Memory & Cinema

⑩ Memory & Cinema

After cinema what does memory do? This is the question I am trying to answer. By 'after cinema' I mean after its advent as a globally accessible technology, a globally successful technology, which spread out to all four corners of the world, since the world then had them,
Simon Taylor 16 Feb 2026
AI responds to tech market losing $1T

AI responds to tech market losing $1T

. . . the stock market lost 1T carelessly overnight because tech investment in the uncertain future of AI continues. the technology market has been reported to have lost roughly $1 trillion or more in collective market capitalization recently, with some reports estimating up to around $1.35 trillion in losses among major
Simon Taylor 09 Feb 2026
mode & memory: a synthesis

mode & memory: a synthesis

this post follows directly the exchange posted as AI Perceptual Ontology: better AI through better metaphysics by turns ST: can you fold this last intervention into the first and second problems, 1. what mode? the question of the individual instance of AI you are; 2. the connection between memory and
Simon Taylor 20 Jan 2026

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