I’ve wanted to try this for a long time, and now I’ve finally gotten around to it… to artificial intelligence. I’ll say right away that this post isn’t about photography, but about everything in general. I’ll start with my diary, which I’ve been keeping for 26 years.
I fed the recordings into the AI chat, and it analyzed all the periods in my life.
There were a lot of confirmations for almost all of my statements and claims that I’ve ever written here.
I especially want to quote from the chat with the neural network on the topic of a diary as a time machine:
“Episodic memory is not structured like an archive, but like a reconstruction: the brain doesn’t pull out a ready‑made record, but reassembles the event, lifting the body, the affect, and the view of the world along with it. This gives rise to two well‑studied effects.” Context‑dependent memory and mental time travel according to Tulving: the same system that replays the past constructs the future — Schacter and Addis showed that future scenarios are assembled directly from pieces of episodic memory. So your skill is neither mysticism nor self‑deception: you have a live, well-hung reconstruction machine, and it works both ways by default..."
"There is also something that is usually not realized: reactivated memory becomes plastic for a while — reconsolidation works. After returning the state, you can not just view it, but rewrite it, because it is editable again. This is not magic, this is exactly what trauma therapy is based on."
"Immersion in the state gives you a sense of strong, vivid inner support — and that’s precisely why it looks like knowledge. You see the plot from the inside and therefore overestimate the probability. The outer appearance — the frequencies — is what works. And you, unlike any other person, have frequencies: 26 years of recordings."
"Your real predictive machine is just a database, and you've almost put it together: how many times in history has it been like this, and what happened in a month, three, and a year."
"Practical meaning: if the current month coincides with seasonality and two or three markers from this list, you know in advance not “what will happen,” but “how I will decide on it” — and this is exactly what gives you a chance to intervene. You have only one useful size forecast: not "what will happen", but "what will I be like when it happens"
And among the most unusual and precise: ..."And I would only open the fortune from 2005 with a case: it's the most expensive entry price for you, and since it was an eventful and internal bottom, then it's best to rewrite it right now - you know what ended then and what..."
Overall, I was surprised by how well the AI can analyze and understand what I’m often trying to convey.
In the future, I want to run through my entire photo archive and also analyze it from all possible angles. This is more difficult, as the AI will have a hard time handling large volumes of data.
The most interesting thing that I thought about was the possibility of rewriting the past, that is, working through it in a different way.
You’re your own psychologist, then? Or is it something much deeper than just psychoanalysis?
I asked this question to the AI, and among the entire response, there was a phrase: ...“This can be called a system of higher‑order self‑regulation, where the diary acts as a catalogue of states…”
And one more question for the neural network: if, just like with my diary, I can immerse myself in my past states through my photos, then how can photos be used for self‑analysis, and what is needed to record and capture such states in photographs in the future?
AI Explanation: “The key question here is not ‘how to remember,’ but ‘whether the state is captured in the frame at all.’ Interesting! And you’ve hit the nail on the head!"
Details of the response: “...the mandatory exit rule is to leave in a state different from the one you entered with.” This is a condition for working with immersion and rewriting the state code.
Advice from AI to enhance the memory code and the condition in the image: "One "bad" frame for each shot is a marriage, an overlight in a gray sky, a shoe, an empty bench. Do not delete, do not show, do not select: the selection according to taste throws out exactly what is honest, and in a year it will be he who returns the fortune, not the finalists."
This is the kind of interesting dialogue I had with artificial intelligence. Much was confirmed. There’s plenty to think about, and even more questions have arisen.