Memories
Welcome Back to AI Don’t Surf Reader,
Today I would like to discuss memory and more particular memories. I doubt Ai will ever understand what a memory is and also how you can change a memory. Perception changes over time as does the very ability to recollect events as they happened exactly.
I was prompted to bring up the topic of memory because I was watching the Stanley Cup Finals, and the goalies are both outstanding. I was also thinking about this woman I met this week who is a beautiful influencer, and she has two million followers.
She was exhibiting at an event which I was also an exhibitor. She is a true pro. Real camera tripod and she made literal movies of the event before the sunrose the next morning. Francis Ford Coppola level of production. What stood out to me was that she says she tries to answer every comment.
Of course that made my brain remember a memory. It was when the USA Hockey team beat the Russians for the Gold Medal in 1980. I was only 5 years old but I remember celebrating in the living room with my brothers and mom and dad. Obviously, as a 5-year-old, I only remember gimpses of the game.
The goalie for USA was named Jim Craig and I wrote him a letter. He wrote back. In my letter I told him I wished he played for the Boston Bruins because we had Andy Moog as our goalie and he wasn’t very good. Jim wrote back to me and also gave me a ton of candy. He told me that Andy was his friend and that he was a way better goalie than he was.
This memory was triggered because I was thinking about how fans interacted back in the fan mail day. I was so stoked when I got that letter. I can literally picture the candy. There was a candy necklace for sure. Thinking that happy and visualizing the candy made me feel happy.
Ai Don't’t Surf because Ai will never be able to comprehend this concept as fully as a human.
Furthermore, memories are in the past where imagination is in the future. You can imagine your future happiness right now in this present moment which is the only reality there is.