Selvedges

Notes for a Connectionist Manifesto

The signature of time ablaze in the tissues

Greensleeves and Ode to Joy spring from her fingers'
tiny gymnastics on the guitar neck. Weeks back each note,
once found, still buzzed or thumped. This trick leaping
fret to fret along wires plucked by the far hand takes time.
Epic molecular ballets must be staged across far flung cell membranes.
Within neural sheets and webs comprising hippocampus, activation
patterns pack tightly such that each, emerging, unfolds the next
and the whole floats brightly in living room air.

Feel that wriggling weight of melody settle into the net.

Selvage

Solving systems of simultaneous constraints


Copyright 1998 by Greg Keith