Wave

 

 
[UPDATE 8-3-18]

Some wave-related temporal events: Continue reading “Wave”

Phantom Spectre, Agency Prediction Branch

COALESCING fragments

Of a notable computer architecture vulnerability,  preceded by a few tangentially related media entries.

Suggested primers:

Further viewing:

Then there is something spooky about how this relates to the Meltdown and Spectre exploits in ARM, Intel and AMD CPUs… [forthcoming]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_predictor

Syzygy

Painting of temporal model, first photographed during solar eclipse, then ran through a convolutional neural-network with max-pool target.

Long/Short: Different Encodings for Memory Recall


Something about the experiment in the following article makes me think about the access and recall of memories. How is it that when I attempt to recall something, at first I am presented with an absence? Then, as images of that memory start forming in the present, how does that previous absence inform my capacity to determine whether or not the recalled memory is accurate?  The process by which we recognize a memory as actually having-been is not as trivial as it seems, I think.

Continue reading “Long/Short: Different Encodings for Memory Recall”

Phi Movement

 

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A more elegant experiment to demonstrate the Phi phenomenon or effect originally made use of two parallel line segments with a gap between them. By displaying them in alternation, there is a rate at which we start to perceive the two separate segments as a single line moving back and forth, however that remains unclear (see: wikipedia talk-page reference). We are perhaps more familiar with the effect as the spinning pinwheel, wait cursor, or chaser-lights lining the perimeter of theatre marquees.

What is peculiar about the phenomenon is not only that it works in creating the illusion of motion between recognizably static elements. Continue reading “Phi Movement”

Synchronous Sortilege

Coincidental Connections

In the spirit of things non-linear, an interesting coincidence just occurred. Attempting to re-enable comments, in light of the previous post, I visited my site from the computer of a friend already logged-in to WP. Given how comments were not readily working from that account, I offhandedly searched for “future release temporality” from their reader. The top result was:

— Source: https:// environmentalcritique. files.wordpress.com/ 2016/07/

Continue reading “Synchronous Sortilege”