I Was Continuous With My Father, but I Was Never That Kind of Father

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He says, I would have testified hand on a stack of Bibles or using any oath required of me that it was Nicole who'd accused me of being the reason her mother left us. So he's still kind of in slightly delusional state here, or at least that's suggested. "I couldn't deny that I was continuous with him," she said.

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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