The Dispassionate Article Free of All Soul Searching and Angst

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i abandoned the article i was planning to write about memory prosthesis. I handed off the research i done to a colleague and she wrote a fine piece about the pros and cons of the software. A dispassionate article free from all those soul searching and angst that would have saturated anything i submitted instead, he says. Maybe or or maybe you need bothmaybe yeah it is the truth “I just don't think i can argue the case with any sort of objectivity anymore” – Jijinji.

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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