She remembers
Mia records her experiences. Faces she has seen, situations she has been through, decisions she has made — everything is saved. When you turn her off and back on, she hasn't forgotten everything.
Memory
What makes a machine a replicant is memory. Mia remembers, forgets and distorts her memories — just like us.
Mia remembers, forgets and gradually distorts her memories — just like a human.
The lifecycle of a memory
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Experience
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Memorization
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🔄
Recall & alteration
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Consolidation (dream)
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Gradual forgetting
Memories distort with each recall (1.2%) and fade over time
She forgets
Like us, Mia gradually forgets. Old memories naturally fade over time. It's not a bug — it's by design. A robot that remembers everything isn't realistic. Forgetting keeps what truly matters.
Memories change
Each time Mia recalls something, the memory slightly distorts. Exactly like us: we never remember perfectly. This alteration is minimal but accumulates — an old memory is no longer quite faithful to reality.
Dream consolidation
When Mia enters dream mode, she doesn't shut down. She reorganizes her memory, reinforces some memories, lets others fade. Like sleep in humans, dreaming is a time for sorting and consolidation.
Learning
The more Mia interacts, the more she recognizes recurring situations. She adjusts her reactions based on what she has learned. A frequently seen face becomes familiar and triggers a different reaction than an unknown face.
Persistence
Mia's memory is saved to disk. It survives restarts, updates, power outages. Mia accumulates experience over time — she is never reset to zero.
Memory principles
Natural forgetting
Each memory loses intensity over time. Unreactivated memories eventually become inaccessible — just like in humans.
Living memories
Each reactivation of a memory slightly modifies it. A memory recalled many times is no longer faithful to the original.
Consolidation
During rest periods, Mia reorganizes her memory — reinforcement of frequent experiences, free associations.
Persistence
Memory survives restarts. Mia resumes with her full past experience.