New Memory
The Wood between Worlds
SCOTT BENZEL
SEP 27, 2024
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Caption: The Wood between Worlds from C.S. Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew
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Aaron French
academic · 2 mentions across 1 reading
In this course
Aaron French's academic work on the Mandela Effect—the phenomenon where groups share false collective memories—provides a framework for understanding how shared digital cultures and networked systems create alternate versions of reality that challenge individual and collective epistemology. In the course readings, French's concept enables discussions of how AI systems, algorithmic curation, and networked consciousness operate not just as tools for processing information but as architects of alternative memory landscapes that blur the line between simulation and lived experience. His work appears foundational to understanding how pandaemonium (disorder as system) emerges from the intersection of human cognition, digital infrastructure, and emergent group behavior.
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