The Twist

Memory or the human mind as we know it, works by connecting two or more closely related ideas to make sense of anything.

Nowadays, I find myself thinking up homonyms (words/phrases) then looking for an artist who has executed that ‘concept’ well. It could be a Clockwork Orange, channel orange or the Noir album by Smino.

It’s not necessarily the concept you think is great in art, but who tried to do something new — sometimes they fail, and we say they had potential. Other times, they influence so many others to follow in their footsteps.

Artists don’t fail imo, I believe they always succeed; the film wanted or many other Hollywood films with so much ‘potential’ from an idealistic perspective. I can go on and on about popular artists who simply took an underrated artist’s approach and made something of it.

This is not about what they did or didn’t do wrong, but more about what it says about taste for the masses or commercial viability.

My first statement in this post has nothing to do with an expertise in neuroscience, of which I have none whatsoever. It’s simply a first principles thinking of ideas, concepts and then propositions.

Which we could claim current knowledge modelling makes a guess, but not in the way we humans think. So, yes, when we think storytelling, I am tempted to say the Turing test is completely unrelated — nobody can say what the Turing test is except that it tests “a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to that of a…