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

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)

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.