What Does It Matter?

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In one universe, the person wouldn't have died, but they would have been really fucked up. But in this case, it was a boon for the people with the crystal because they could have the two survivors talk to each other. And that's rare and hard to find, right? Because the the worlds are often so similar that those kinds of big things don't differ that much.

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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