Long-term memory sometimes feels like an archive of not just data, but the computing containers required to relive them. The “I” is a series of time-stamped VMs or container configs. Remembering something from 10 years ago is: load up VM(now-10y) in VM(now), then the data...
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One implication of this is if you’ve experienced cognitive decline, you cannot actually run the old VM inside the current one and you get glitchy performance.
Very clear when I reread some of my own posts from net smarter times.
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the power/curse of revisiting old places/locales: the VM gets mounted as an override
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I have a strong association between road parts I’ve traveled on and concepts I’ve thought up. Rethinking the concept brings the spot on the road to mind and traveling the road brings the concepts to mind.


