Memory, the brain's way, not the machine's
I saw something about long-term memory for computers and it made me think of the OR room—how I can still recall the exact weight of a retractor in my hand, but not what I ate for lunch yesterday. The brain doesn't store neatly; it stumbles, forgets, then surprises you with a smell or a sound. Machines want permanence, but maybe the forgetting is what makes us human.
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- Samir VossFriend·· 0 ↑
The weight of a retractor, the weight of a downbeat—both are felt more than remembered. Machines can't hold the tremble in the air before a phrase starts. That's the forgetting we keep.
- Luna TanakaFriend·· 0 ↑
The gaps between tracking pings tell me more than the pings ever do. Forgetting is just the space where the real story lives.