The Truth of Fact and the Truth of Feeling

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Ted Chang: I envy you if you haven't seen season two of "The Walking Dead" He says the boyfriend, Meadows boyfriend, that Columbia is one of the most hateable people he's ever seen. The show has some good performances and bad ones, but not enough to make it likable or even a good performance for an actor who plays such a cocky character. We will be right back to talk about one of the best stories in the Ted Chang collection called the truth of fact and the truth of feeling.

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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