Everything Is One Thing, Right?

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There is no category that contains two things. Everything is its own thing, yes? I do get the sense that bore has his trying to portray that. That is how he sees the world, but not in a way that makes him blissful or isightened. So i could see like being overwhelmed by the fact that there are 18 billion things, and then treating it all as one sort of stream. But he's li like, i feel like what's bothering him here is that he's seeing 18 billion things,. Not like 18 things like you and isen right? Right? Exactlyand it's certainly not one thing, one harmonious whole.

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!