The act of editing, which is very much like what we do with memory. A lot of it unconsciously creates its own kind of truth and a different person could create a different kind of truth with that exact same footage. So there's the fear of a disjointed self when your memory as we now have it is no longer the primary source of information about who you are in your past.
Memory is highly selective and often inaccurate. But what if we had an easily searchable video record of all our experiences and interactions? How would that affect our relationships? What would it reveal about our characters and our sense of who we are? Is there a kind of truth that can’t be determined by perfect objectivity? David and Tamler dive deep into Ted Chiang’s amazingly rich and poignant short story “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” which explores how new technologies shape individual and group identities.
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