What do you call the thing where thoughts, memories, and pieces of self get embedded in spaces, objects, people, and other contexts?
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and walking back along the same path can rewind a conversation or thought stream, revisiting and closing topics
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or you can have a part of your soul that's only accessible through a particular song, film, video game, or friend
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upside: fewer ruts, repetitive thought patterns, more likely to have fresh new ideas
downside: thoughts get lost, not followed through
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luckily you can always embed thoughts in metaphorically spacial environments like twitter dot com
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luckily my context is always "smugly looking at a screen"
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clicking through old threads feels similar to walking through old paths, in some ways actually superior since the thoughts are recorded
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embedding thoughts in the environment must've been useful to our nomadic ancestors
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