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
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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