Echoes of the Prior: A Computational Phenomenology of Forgetting
This work provides a novel artistic framework for exploring neuromorphic aesthetics and the phenomenology of forgetting, but is primarily an artistic contribution rather than a technical advancement.
The paper presents an interactive installation that visualizes the subjective experience of forgetting by inducing controlled synaptic decay in a feed-forward 3D reconstruction model, offering an artistic analogy for the erosion of predictive priors in biological memory.
Memory is not merely the storage of data; it is the scaffolding of reality. When biological memory fades, the world does not simply turn black; it regresses into an unrecognizable chaos. Echoes of the Prior is an interactive installation that attempts to visualize this subjective phenomenology of forgetting. By inducing controlled synaptic decay within a Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction model, we create an artistic analogy for the erosion of the brain's predictive priors. We position the Neural Network not as a tool for engineering, but as a cognitive proxy - a silicon brain whose structural degeneration evokes the disorienting, poetic, and terrifying experience of losing one's grip on the world. Ultimately, we offer this framework as a catalyst, inviting the wider community to explore the uncharted potential of neuromorphic aesthetics in visualizing the fragility of intelligence. Interactive demo see https://decart-4d.github.io/.