Is There a Way to Make a Better Choice?

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"It's easy to see that this was the sort of the causal nexus of Vanessa's decline having been in that room," he says. "And so, of course, she spends a story about how that was the moment." The character is now trying to atone for what she did and has second thoughts over whether or not to charge Moro with his dead husband's prism.

Is character destiny, or can fluky decisions or tiny shifts in weather patterns fundamentally change who we are? Does the existence or non-existence of alternate universes have any bearing on freedom and responsibility? David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” along with another very short piece by Chiang called “What’s Expected of Us” that was first published in Nature.

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