Is the Dog at Three 15 the Same Dog at Four 20?

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i think i have nominalist leanings on this front, in which when we start to universalize and systematize, we are doing that to be useful, but we're not adding to the truth. There's a line with the dog, like, it irritated him that the dog at that he saw at three 15 is the same dog as one he saw two seconds later. It's like, what does that mean? Is he denying that they are the same dog? Like, what does he think a like a dog is, or the same dog would even mean? Well, that's a great example of how true bores is about the identity of the dog. He's saying

David and Tamler return to Borges land to get lost in the infinite, this time with his legendary and tragic character Funes the memorious. What would it be like to have perfect memory, to have full access to every perceived detail no matter how trivial? Would life be infinitely richer, with present experience and memory merging into a perfect Heraclitan flow? Or is William James correct to say that one condition of remembering is to forget, and that “if we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.”?

Plus, we’re sorry, but after 10 years (!) we thought we had the right to get a little self-indulgent and naval-gazey. We do a bit of reminiscing (“though we have no right to speak that sacred verb..”) in the first segment about how the podcast has changed since 2012, and the impact it has made on our lives. Thanks for the memories!