Very Bad Wizards

Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)

Sep 6, 2022

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Is There Any Reason Why He Can't Emotionally Favor Some Memories Over the Other?

01:52

The Darkness of the Narrator

01:31

Is the Dog at Three 15 the Same Dog at Four 20?

01:44

Introduction

2min

I'll Do Drugs With Sydney Sweeney

2min

I Don't Want Guns Till I Have a Friend Who's Into Guns

2min

A Great Story That We've Been Wanting to Do for a Long Time

2min

The Tenth Anniversary of Dogs Li Wing

2min

I've Never Taken the Whole Cancel Culture Seriously

3min

The One Star Repugnant Review

3min

The Unforgiven Episode, Episode 11

2min

Podcast Episodes on Short Stories

2min

10.

I've Come to Be a Little Bit More Lukewarmed Some Kinds of Philosophy

2min

11.

Are You an Existentialist Bodgast?

2min

12.

The Meaning of Life One in Episode Ten

3min

13.

The Best Way to Understand Something Is to Teach It

2min

14.

The Dream Guest, You Know?

2min

15.

The Memories of a Dream Guest

2min

16.

Super Speziosa - Crateem Powder, Tablets and Teas

4min

17.

The Deadwood Series - Can You Help?

3min

18.

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

2min

19.

Boris Short Story - The Memorias A. Funes

4min

20.

The Library of Babel

3min

21.

The Darkness of the Narrator

2min

22.

Is He Accessing Truer Things Than We Do?

2min

23.

Is the Dog at Three 15 the Same Dog at Four 20?

2min

24.

Is a Little Country, Like the French Do at the Belgians?

2min

25.

Didarge Argentinian Attitudes

2min

26.

The Power of Remembering

5min

27.

The Strangest Experiences of the Past

2min

28.

Borhes - I Want to Learn Latin

2min

29.

A Telegramus Onl I Don't Even Know What a Telegram Is

3min

30.

The Story of a Paralyzed Man

3min

31.

Boris Says, "Is There a Rein of Memory?"

2min

32.

Are You Having a Hives Attack?

5min

33.

What's the Difference Between Senses and Sensational Memory?

2min

34.

Is There Any Reason Why He Can't Emotionally Favor Some Memories Over the Other?

2min

35.

Better Help Can Make a Difference in Your Life

3min

36.

Are They Incompatible?

2min

37.

Do You Remember All the Differences?

2min

38.

He's Developing a Metaphysics

3min

39.

The Difference Between Memory and Functionality

3min

40.

Is Your Metaphysics a Shared Reality?

2min

41.

Everything Is One Thing, Right?

2min

42.

He Says, His Own Face in the Mirror Is Right After That Dog Example

2min

43.

The Dog at Three, 15

2min

44.

Lie, You Can't I Fall Asleep

4min

45.

Is There Something Infinite in the Mind of Asher?

2min

46.

The Fucking Metaphysic

1min

47.

The Hegalian Dialect of Esher and Borhes

4min

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!

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