Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")
Very Bad Wizards
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The Psychology of Memory
Our memories are not impartial accumulation of every second we've lived. They're the narratives we've assembled out of selected moments. A perfect memory couldn't be a narrative any more than an unedited security cam footage could be a feature film. It's like that our sense of self comes from the fact that we selectively interpret parts of our memory and experience to form our sense of who we are.
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