Machine Learning and the Platonic Ideal of Rocky

How does the neural net in our skull grok something as complicated as “Rocky”? WAUWINET, AUGUST 14, 2026. I’m in a hospital room looking at a 21-year-old man looking at a laptop flashing images of action heroes, including the cinematic boxer “Rocky.” Cables loop from the back of the man’s bandaged head to a stack of blinking electronic equipment. This is one of many strange, loopy memories stirred…