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concept:direct-reference-to-the-pastdirect reference to the past
The ability in Elephant to refer to past events and states without explicit data structures.
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- The past viewed as a function of time giving events and states, used for direct reference.
- Bibliographical element: a dynamic branching outward or internal link, citing or connecting to another text.
- Explicit textual or graphical links between parts of a work, dynamic and virtual.
- Data structure allowing Elephant programs to refer directly to past events without explicit data structures; enables natural language-like reference to past.
- The central topic, treated as a dynamic, agential process rather than static storage.
- Special case of immediate feedback loop where user interacts with artifacts in a lifelike manner, typically through cursor or finger-based dragging.
- Speculative hypothesis: consciousness may be the subjective experience of continuous self-construction freed from commitment to prior interpretations.
- Points to the shadow text of latent content.