“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”

— Mortimer Adler, How to Read a Book

Memory is a way to understand the world around you. Through reading, writing, and thinking, you can interact with an artificial intelligence trained on the best ways to question and clarify your understanding of what you care about.

Memory is calibrated using classification and instruction fine-tuning to measure your level of understanding and create a conversation that develops your understanding using a basic rhetorical device: the question. Your answer is how you engage your mind in the conversation — you not only answer the question, you also explain the answer. You connect it to what you know to justify the answer.

Memory continues the conversation, narrowing its focus to find truth in your explanation and broadening its context to encourage you to see your understanding as part of the wider world of knowledge.

Memory is not only a conversation partner. It's a tool for you to see what you know and, importantly, what you don't know. It does this by analysing your writing for ideas that are unclear or used to explain something that doesn't make sense. Memory will question you at these moments and make a note to help you improve your understanding in another conversation.

The best way to work with Memory is to start with something you want to better understand. Pick a topic you're motivated to understand as well as you can. Begin with a statement about what you know, what you're unsure about, or a question. That's all it takes — just start.