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Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")
FromVery Bad Wizards
Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")
FromVery Bad Wizards
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Length:
109 minutes
Released:
Jun 18, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
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.
Released:
Jun 18, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 4: Revenge, Pt. 1: Dave allows Tamler to rant about Sam Harris’s straw man attacks on moral relativism before launching into discussion about revenge, justice, "True Grit," and Michael Dukakis. Though they differ on many issues, Tamler and Dave agree that it’s hard to satirize a guy with shiny boots. by Very Bad Wizards