A Psychologist's Playbook for Fixing AI Memory: Conway, Damasio, and the Case Against Vector Databases

A detailed thread argues that decades-old psychology research on human memory already contains the blueprint for solving AI agents' persistent memory failures — and that the industry is ignoring it in favor of brute-force retrieval.

The AI industry's approach to agent memory is, to put it charitably, naive. That's the argument from @rryssf_, who published a detailed synthesis of psychology research — drawing on Martin Conway's self-memory system, Antonio Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis, and other well-established frameworks — and mapped them directly onto the failure modes plaguing today's AI agents.

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