Pathways Through Memory

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Chapter 4 set out to give the system a map. Instead of reconstructing meaning from raw passages at every query, it keeps interpretation: entities, relationships, claims, communities, each traceable back to the artifact it came from. Whether that map pays for itself is Chapter 4’s own question and Chapter 4’s own experiment; nothing here assumes its verdict.

This chapter asks a question that arises either way. Suppose the map exists. A map is a structure to search. Remembering is not a search — or at least, human remembering does not feel like one. Something occurs to you, and something else follows from it, and the thing you needed arrives three steps later by a route you did not plan.

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Pathways Through Memory