This article is mostly a history of associationism, the philosophy based on Hume's philosophy that knowedge is based on a (non-logical) association of ideas and impressions. It connects Larry Page's Page Rank algorithm that powered Google search with this long tradition spanning from Locke to Hume to Mill to Freud to modern theories of knowledge management. I, too, am an associationist, and the AI machines that underlie large language models like ChatGPT are based on associationist principles. How ironic, then, that Google seems to be trying to eliminate associationism from the web by eliminating the link. It's what media companies do (note how few links there are in this article about linking) to keep control over the product and the consumer. Via Alan Levine.
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