The newsletter
AMIDA
A newsletter developing, in public, a single idea: that memory is not retrieval but reconstruction — dynamical, subjective inference. Each issue builds, tests, or challenges that thesis across physics, computation, experiment, and cognition.
Not a digest. Not neutral coverage. A thesis, argued one issue at a time.
How each issue works
One argument, then the field around it.
The essay
A developed argument that advances the thesis — the real intellectual work of the issue, given the space it deserves.
From the field
The developments that matter — papers, results, ideas — each read through the thesis, with a line on why it counts. The field interpreted, not merely listed.
What it returns to
Four recurring threads.
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The reconstruction frame
memory as active inference, not lookup
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The confidence layer
why subjective certainty is a variable, not noise
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The ageing testbed
where the framework meets evidence
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The physics scaffolding
criticality, energy landscapes, dynamics
High-confidence false memory in ageing
Why the most confident memories can be the most wrong — and what that reveals about how remembering actually works. The inaugural issue, and the anchor for everything that follows.
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Written for people who work on memory, learning, and intelligence. A few issues a year, each worth the time.