We've Done a Lot of Episodes, and We're Proud of It.

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At five dollars enough, you'll get to vote on an episode topic. At ten dollars, an up, this is our highest tear, you get to ask us questions. And yet, also at two dollars and up, you get all our bonous episodes,. We've done a lot of them right now, like, i can't, i don't dn't know how many, but, but there are lots of them. If anyone has been listening from, like, since the earlest episodes, and is still listening, i'm kind of curious to hear from themm., says Werot.

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!