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Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")

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What's the Point of the Story?

The whole point of art is to play with these ideas and make us think. Ted Chang didn't think some of the things that we were saying had anything to do with his original intention i put money on that he would be like that's the points of the storyYeah no like to raise questions like not to give you answers that um i i let me go one extra meta level above you maybe when that person on reddit or twitter or whoever it was that is part of a new conversation that is working towards like an even deeper or different analysis of it as if it's like that yeah so it's amazing even better after after having been discussingyeah all right well join us next time on very bad

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