Self-Assembling Memory Palace
From CloudPad
snippets to reassemble:
Collective memory. Dendrites and synapses...nodes and links. Pictures and associations
what step is this in the evolution of the Global brain?
Flickr tag is my favorite game these days. It's just boundless in there. I see it as this thriving underground community that developed inside a storage tank (where pictures are stored beneath the land of blogs and websites). We can follow the trail of a picture up to the article/place it is connected to...we can swim through photo pools and groups and clusters...
Tag (Metadata)on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags)
Social bookmarking Tagging on del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/help/tags)
websites as graphs (http://www.aharef.info/2006/05/websites_as_graphs.htm)
web scrapbooking and the creation of shareable memory
This is my artwork Self-Assembling Memory Palace (http://pic5.picturetrail.com/VOL78/135657/8452189/118297765.jpg). Of course in my mind it is dynamic and fluid with the bits and spaces floating and connecting like snowflakes.. overlapping into temporary labyrinthian configurations based on associative memory. Within the large green square is an aerial/blueprint of the first floor of my childhood home (http://www.cloudpad.org/wiki/index.php/22_Babcock)...a sort of armature I envision attracting and embedding object/memories/files into for personal navigational ease.
Just recently I had one of those half-sleep visions that was making PERFECT sense…(until I would try to use my ‘awake’ brain to see it again)…I was somehow Seeing how you could influence/manipulate the SHAPE of an object/packet by tagging it with like 6 tags…each pulling equally on a side…so it’d stretch into maybe a cube…and adding more..each tag pulling the shape into something else…what fun…you can imagine where this could lead with hypercubes and such…
how will we integrate our text files and photographic memories into secondlife/virtual worlds?
- virtual files/bookshelves
- virtual photo albums
- as art on walls of virtual homes/constructs
Encourage gradual uploading of photos to flickr sets...and tagging...encourage hotlink connections posted on each photo...
2005-Second Life/Firefox Browsing (http://avad.livejournal.com/99033.html)
Croquet project (http://opencroquet.org/index.php/A_Beginners_Guide)
Annotated memory maps (http://flickr.com/photos/soopa/8815868/in/pool-memorymaps/)another good annotated map (http://flickr.com/photos/alice-howlett/2233404564/in/pool-memorymaps)
MemoryArchive.org (http://www.memoryarchive.org/en/MemoryArchive)
E-Learning 2.0 (http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=29-1)
Please feed your ideas and memories to the Self-Assembling Memory Palace. We are working on the growth of a benevolent superorganism, thankyou.:)
"... You need a book, some drops of water and your hand. Place some drops of water on the book. Then lift one side up, forcing the drop to run down in a "straight" line. Then lay the book back down and place a new drop in the same spot as the first one. Tilt the book again, only in a slightly different angle, and we can observe the drop running down the same "ditch", not straight down—even if this interferes with the gravity.
"Our memory is billions of "routes", and the ones that are easiest to travel, and not inhibited by any other factors, will be preferred. Like the path from the water drop on the book. So more activity in certain routes will make it easier for signals to travel in the "memorized" directions." from memory/wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory)
(apply to linking and tags.)
Mandala Palaces are memory palaces of the most important kind (http://avad.livejournal.com/105700.html)
