Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling") - podcast episode cover

Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")

Jun 18, 20192 hr 49 minEp 166Transcript available on Metacast
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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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