This story focuses on two new technologies. One that doesn't exist yet and one that has existed for a long time. It is a story about how technological advances can influence the way we understand ourselves, the world, and even truth itself. There's some overlap between this story and the William James episode that we did.
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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