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Temporal Memory Field — a primer

Time as a repository of memory. An accessible overview of the hypothesis, its consequences for memory, and what it would mean for experience and machines.

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The Gravity Venture — invention story

From modest R&D in the shed to a working concept: materials, prototyping notes and the Greedy Monkey story that led to a product.

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Leaping Ravines — cinematic excerpt

A cinematic opening — light, vivid and intentionally spare. A taste of the book that contains scenes, moods and philosophical edges.

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InMoov — robot memory experiment
Progress log: 3D prints, neural engine notes and how a life-sized humanoid will hold decades of your notes.

My Jurassic Coast
Photo essay and fact-file: Mary Anning, fossils and Dorset topography.

Health & Mind
Honest notes on panic, DVT and recovery. Signposted and presented with care.

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Temporal Memory Field — full essay

A structured overview: background, implications, and illustrative thought experiments.

The Gravity Venture

Design notes and prototype photos. Material choices and production thoughts.

Leaping Ravines — scene sampler

An excerpt with cinematic pacing. Light on exposition, heavy on visual beats.

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LIFE 1
1956–1966
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School days, moon landing context and teenage formation.

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Haslar, early twenties, first steps beyond home.

LIFE 4
1980–1995
Family, loss, the Isle of Wight and children.

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1995–1999
That THING!, international recognition and its costs.

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Business pressure, breakdown and recovery notes (sensitive).

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2011–2016+
Small fragments: New Year 2012, obituaries and scattered notes.

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Time, cosmology, consciousness and the Planet Generica ideas for Mars.

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About the Author

27 years ago, at the age of 43, I unwittingly imploded my 20 year love story of a marriage by allowing an extra-ordinary run of local, national and international business success in innovation and design entirely derail my private life.

Meaning, in doing what society expects of us, by striving and succeeding in being brave, risk averse and entrepreneurial, I allowed the pursuit of business ambitions to destroy everything I ever held dear.

Unable to process that reality, I turned to a brand new technology: the World Wide Web where I found solace and meaning speaking openly to others.

Initially, as user “On The Beach”, (OTB) that persona acted as a foil and online way for Chris to discuss and face difficult truths his real-world self could not and would not face or acknowledge.

Later though several years before the advent of Facebook, followers, fans or subscribers, under the pseudo name of Beach, I would gain thousands of loyal individual online friends who came to appreciate and look forward to reading my idiosyncratic, often deep and meaningful posts on an array of giant global forums and online watering holes across the world.

I was writing about and debating artificial intelligence and the need to one day develop morals and rights for non living digital life forms as far back as 2002 and also included topics such as “Martian Colony Planning” in the days when Nasa’s JPL lab was Earth’s only hope for putting the first human on the red planet.

Anyway, Beach became the voice I used whenever I was interacting online, a role he has now hosted on my behalf for more than twenty-five years.

As a result, particularly within these pages, Beach Thorncombe’s voice is often louder than Chris’s ever would be.

That said, Beach is not some split personality of mine. Rather he is simply my alter ego, (Like Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust” or Eric Arthur Blair’s “George Orwell” except, unlike either of those Stardust / Orwell fictional nom de plumes, Beach is the raw authentic, fiercely intellectual side of the Chris you may already know or knew.

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