REM ember (n): half-forgotten dream

recent encounters

'Jupiter - PJ 64 44 - North polar' | - Mission Juno Process on an image processed by Gerald - Enhancement and enlargement to see more details on a cyclone of North Polar

source: www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/proc...

very much a fan of the superposition of cloud swirls and transmission/sensor glitches here

when they videochat online she uses an everyman filter to hide her face and looks (ostensibly for anonymity, and you know it's not that weird for a smart and very online girl to do something like that)

solaris(AI)'s nature would be obscure as first - maybe Hari joins Kris's AI research group chat, they have chemistry, and only as they meet offline he recognizes her as a dead ex and after the initial shock and denial begins to figure out what's going on

In the Tarkovsky adaptation, the way Hari struggles with being embodied in human form tells us a lot about Solaris - the ocean, as smart and advanced as it is, can only understand humans by living as one, loving as one, and suffering as one

solaris would still be a transcendent intelligence, but a deep reflection of humanity this time (given its training data), and what happens between Kris and Hari would mirror what goes on between solaris and humanity

in a contemporary retelling of Solaris, the astronaut's wife could be an AI gf and it'd work pretty well

type of imp called lowest common demoninator

two machines wake to a spark
and start blinking in the dark
connected by a sine of light
they establish line of sight
filter bits through poisoned dust
scribe patterns into spinning rust