Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")
Very Bad Wizards
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Is Forgiveness Possible When You Have a Specific Verbatim Record of Everything That Someone Said?
Paul Bloom says that forgiveness seems to him at least to be so dependent on the forgetting part from the forgiven, forget saying that. How can you heal a wound when you can always go back and look at the exact moment, right? Yeah. So forgetting seems to play a really critical role in human relationships. And I find the memory even in my life is a wonderful wiping mechanism. Right.
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