{"id":11499,"date":"2026-10-16T23:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaloctober.com\/?page_id=11499"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:25:54","slug":"memory-knots-to-llms-calgary-2026-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitaloctober.com\/?page_id=11499&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The Mind and Its Digital Tools \u2014 Maria Falikman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Where does our memory end and technological assistance begin? Maria Falikman explores how search, smartphones and language models change the ways we think and learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 26, 2026 \u00b7 Calgary, Canada \u00b7 Talk in Russian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 26, 2026, Digital October organised Maria Falikman’s talk, From Memory Knots to Smartphones: The Mind and Its Digital Tools, at the Platform Innovation Centre in Calgary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Falikman, a professor and researcher at The University of the South with a doctorate in psychology, examined digital technologies as tools of cognition. Drawing on information search, navigation and language models, she discussed changes in memory, attention and our understanding of the boundaries of the mind. The talk was delivered in Russian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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