Insatiable Mind

You close a book. You walk out of a museum. You fly home from a tour. And you feel it slipping away. Not just the details. The feeling.

Soon it feels like the encounter happened to someone else entirely.

That's not a failure of memory. It's how the mind actually works.

We don't store encounters in isolation. We store them in connection.

To places.

To feelings.

To people.

To other ideas.

Without those connections, the book, the exhibit, the detail of your trip, has no path back. It doesn't disappear. It just becomes unreachable.

Insatiable Mind surfaces what you know, at the moment it becomes relevant, engineering connections you couldn't have planned, across books, paintings, and ideas you didn't know were in conversation.

For your thinking to stop being cognitive and become…

Embodied.

Lived.

Permanent.

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The System

Your own intellectual autobiography — everything you've read, seen, and been through

Ten of 223 books. Plus the notes in the margins, the photographs, the places.

— into a living layer over experience.

What follows is one of multiple surfaces.

Insatiable Mind is live, working software I have used every day for eight months — Wander, Sounding, Landscapes, Investigate, notes-in-the-margins, Touchstones, and the Tours. This is the Tours, at the Met.

In the Wild · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A personal audio soundtrack, built from everything you've read, that accompanies you into a museum, a city, an afternoon walk. And speaks at the moment of encounter.

Four voices · All AI-generated

The Museum · Kandel · The Library · The Unexpected

The Tour

A Stop · In the Gallery

The Library

A soundtrack for experience.

Built to bring Eric Kandel's Essays on Art and Science into the world and into the body. Proven at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Your Thinking Collides with the Moment.

Ideas you've carried for years, suddenly finding each other
in the room you're standing in.

Gallery 632 · Floor 2 · Dutch Paintings, 17th Century

Three paintings on a blue wall.
One I've walked past before. But this time...

Johannes Vermeer · A Maid Asleep · c. 1656–57

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Look into the doorway. A room beyond.
Empty now. It wasn't always.

In the Gallery

I hear the museum narrator discuss A Maid Asleep...

The Met

Vermeer transfigured an ordinary scene into an investigation of light, color and texture. X radiographs indicate that he chose to remove a male figure he had originally included standing in the doorway — heightening the painting's ambiguity.

Here is where your thinking transforms into experience.

Eric R. Kandel
Essays on Art and Science

Kandel · On Ambiguity

"The more ambiguous a work of art, the more top-down processing we must do to resolve the ambiguities and assign the work meaning, utility and value."

Kandel · The Beholder's Share

"The beholder's share — the knowledge, experience and memories a viewer brings to a work of art — can create very different conceptions of an ambiguous image."

And then, the system sends a novelist in.

From the Library

"The poem has served history well
by remaining a blank sheet."

Ian McEwan
What We Can Know

A quote underlined in a novel, but forgotten.

Ian McEwan · What We Can Know

Drawn to the surface in front of a 1656 Dutch painting.

Johannes Vermeer · A Maid Asleep · The Met

III

In conversation with a Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist.

Eric R. Kandel · Essays on Art and Science

And in a flash, those three things become one visceral experience.

In my head

I travel back to the landscape of McEwan's story.

In my body

I remember the physical act of underlining that passage.

In the gallery

I recognize in Vermeer's painting McEwan's "blank sheet." And the maid takes on breath, fueled by my own experiences of being young and alone in someone else's world.

In my mind

I am surprised. And moved.

I have experienced what Kandel means when he describes the beholder's share.

Across brain, body, and space.

And I will not forget this painting.

And I will not forget this concept.

And I will not forget this book.

Nine more stops to go.

The system recognized something I hadn't — that these two ideas were already in conversation. It just waited for me to walk into the room.

What It Is

Insatiable Mind turns what you've read, seen, and been through into an ever-expanding, ever-evolving, interactive personal collection. It engineers connections you couldn't have planned and ignites meaning between ideas you never knew were in conversation.

The connections don't stop at insight. They become artifacts and experiences you move through.

So the experiences that changed you in the past continue to collide and interact with one another in the present.

The Rest of the System

What you just “walked” is one of multiple surfaces in motion with one another. Wander · Sounding · Landscapes · Investigate · Notes-in-the-margins · Touchstones · the Tours.

Home

Wander

Sounding

Landscapes

Investigate

The Tours

Not mockups.Live, working software · in daily use for eight months

Opportunities

Personal

A soundtrack for any encounter worth having. Your collection, alive in the world.

Authors & Creators

An author or a coach whose readers can walk through the ideas, each one arriving with a collection of their own.

Institutional

A museum where every visitor hears a different tour, shaped by their own passions and experiences.

Partnerships

A publisher's catalog meets a museum's collection, and every intersection becomes a guided moment.

Educational

A year-long course where every student's own reading keeps connecting and deepening, week after week.

Insatiable Mind was inspired by Annie Murphy Paul's The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, and began in April of 2022 as a Photoshop project. In 2026 it became an interactive, AI-powered, multi-surface app built on a proprietary connection layer.

Kathryn Jones

Founder, Insatiable Mind · Executive Producer · AI-Powered Experience Architect

Fifteen years leading teams at the intersection of technology and creativity.

Insatiable Mind is live, working software, and the next step is its first hundred members.

If you would like to see the deck, I will send it.

Get in touch

kathryn@projectbased.ai

Insatiable Mind · insatiablemind.ai
Proven at The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York
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