The Dizziness of Freedom

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In some ways I think that this anxiety is the dizziness of freedom and what's the name of the memory story. Both fundamentally about how we go about constructing this sense of who we are yes whether it is by by our member the memories that we choose to distort or keep or by the decisions that we focus on as you know like the counterfactuals that haunt usYeah they're both story they're both about the stories we tell about our own lives.

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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