Thoughts — Daphne Demekas

Recently, I've been enjoying imagining the space of my own mind as the latent space of a neural network. It's something about the way that it's mathematically high dimensional, so that if we unfolded the coordinate of some embedded concept, there would be more dimensions in there, that might be close to other concepts along some of the dimensional axes, and really away from others. But it's not quite about imagining the space of the mind as the space of concepts, like subjects in school - we are so advanced and metacognitive that the space of our minds expands to the space of how we learn. Regions in this high dimensional space (that I am actively imagining via my representational mechanisms) account for representing the process of making-sense itself. This way, every time we encounter anything, we aren't just "lighting up" the regions of our mind-space that represent things associated with those observations, but rather we are always continuously activating regions that are associated

Recently, I've been enjoying imagining the space of my own mind as the latent space of a neural network. It's something about the way that it's mathematically high dimensional, so that if we unfolded the coordinate of some embedded concept, there would be more dimensions in there, that might be close to other concepts along some of the dimensional axes, and really away from others. But it's not quite about imagining the space of the mind as the space of concepts, like subjects in school - we are so advanced and metacognitive that the space of our minds expands to the space of how we learn. Reg