Podcasts Culture Very Bad Wizards 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")

Published: June 18, 2019, 8 p.m.

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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\\u2019t be determined by perfect objectivity? David and Tamler dive deep into Ted Chiang\\u2019s amazingly rich and poignant short story \\u201cThe Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling\\u201d which explores how new technologies shape individual and group identities.

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