Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)
Very Bad Wizards
Is There Something Infinite in the Mind of Asher?
Every memory spins off a possible infinite number of memories, because it is infinite his capacity. And so he's feeling the weight of thati you can see on his face that he is as old as the pyramids, even though he's only 19. He doesn't want to multiply it in the mind of irineo because, you know, n i took this to me. But when he says that he looked as monumental as bronze, older than egypt, in his mind, he contained the same amount of, in whatever information, memories, as a civilization would.
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