A memory should induce a state through which we see current reality as an instance of the remembered event - or equivalently, see the past as an instance of the present. (Marvin Minsky)

A memory should induce a state through which we see current reality as an instance of the remembered event - or equivalently, see the past as an instance of the present.

Marvin Minsky

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