Jijinji realizes that he's not going to win this and that he probably shouldn't. There is a truth to what the elder is saying that he doesn't want to disagree with so do you? "It's a pragmatist view of truth yeahYeah i mean it but you know that jijinji is secretly thinking oh fuck you can we just lied"
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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