Machines have memory, but do they remember? To be human is to have a rich relationship with time: to blur the self across imagined futures, pasts, and presents. Indeed, there’s little neurological distinction between these tenses. Human remembrance is a creative act that alters what it summons, not so much reading data from a repository as weaving evidence and emotion into a living tapestry.
Since the dawn of written and recorded culture, the material impartiality of technology has interacted...
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