Is Forgiveness Possible When You Have a Specific Verbatim Record of Everything That Someone Said?

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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.

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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