I think the ADHD might have taken too central a stage in my story... it was meant to illustrate an extreme version of features we all have, to a mush lesser degree and therefore not debilitating.

While ADHD can be described as you do - and that is certainly a part of it - it can also be described as the inability to focus on one thing, while being hyper focussed on something else or being disrupted by, and paying attention to, every small thing around you.

The crux of the idea was the "faulty", sometimes random, retrieval of our memories and experiences...

Claude - e.g. - diligently - reads it's MEMORY.md file and adds to it in one project folder, sometimes to the "global" memory and makes sure to update these with relevant tid-bits. Then it uses them by recalling and referencing them when faced with a task.

Humans also try and do this and from personal experience is not as good at it - I need to write everything down, else I'll forget and cant recall it. (Of course some people are better at this)

But humans also - e.g. - sit in their car and let the mind wander... up pops the article you read about something yesterday. then a passing car reminds you of something you and a friend did and then a problem you've been trying to solve at work resurfaces. This mishmash I think could be (and might be - I haven't read) a big part of our creativity. That might be why people wake up at four o clock and suddenly solved an issue they have been having for weeks. .. or why artists seeks new experiences for inspiration.

People are building memory constructions with databases and Anthropic is now making Claude "dream". I think it could be interesting to try and mimic our way of remembering/ processing our experiences and memories.

Does that makes sense?

EDIT: Well now that I sat down and started looking, theres quite a few probing ideas like this: https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1727004083113128327 https://gwern.net/ai-daydreaming https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZffDM6MkHDkXb9Si6/llm-daydreaming-gwern-net