Nicola Eddy

During a cognitive interview, a professor recalls an old AI he designed and finds himself lost in fragments of memory, narrative threads, and thoughts he can no longer tell apart from the machine’s.

In a future without imagination, storytelling means recycling the past. A vintage tutorial, narrated by an AI, guides creators in combining fragments of old narratives, revealing that creation is construction, not invention.

A random apparition leads to the aquatic ape theory, an unproven evolutionary hypothesis that imagines an amphibious origin of humans. The idea of a certain origin is called into question, and if we cannot verify the past, on what do we base the future?