Is Your Metaphysics a Shared Reality?

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i think that's like such a big difference, probably then in terms of your metaphysics. If everything that happens before you is something that you're constructing in your mind, then you're clearly bringing so much to the table in terms of a processing. That turns out to be a true likeer more or less accurate r and it reall is an active act. And shared dochard rules mean we have a shared reality. It feels like a funes metaphysics s just getting focked, because it isn't including categories any more. It only has instances.

David and Tamler return to Borges land to get lost in the infinite, this time with his legendary and tragic character Funes the memorious. What would it be like to have perfect memory, to have full access to every perceived detail no matter how trivial? Would life be infinitely richer, with present experience and memory merging into a perfect Heraclitan flow? Or is William James correct to say that one condition of remembering is to forget, and that “if we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.”?

Plus, we’re sorry, but after 10 years (!) we thought we had the right to get a little self-indulgent and naval-gazey. We do a bit of reminiscing (“though we have no right to speak that sacred verb..”) in the first segment about how the podcast has changed since 2012, and the impact it has made on our lives. Thanks for the memories!