Continuity isn't persistent cognitive state: Glen Bradley on what AI memory misses
GlenBradley · x · 2026-09-30
Glen Bradley draws a distinction: current AI approximates continuity via conversation history, memory stores, summaries, retrieval, and agent scaffolding — but these only preserve information about previous cognitive episodes. Persistent cognitive state would preserve the organized state in which the next episode occurs, a structural gap in today's memory architectures.
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