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

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 109 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:05.9	having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.3	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:16.8	Do you have any idea what you've done to me?
0:26.0	I've done worse.
0:30.9	The plan on his focus.
0:35.3	Later on, attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:43.9	Who are you?
0:46.0	Who are you?
0:47.6	I'm very bad man.
0:48.9	I'm a very good man.
0:50.8	Good man.
0:55.1	Placing deep thoughts and with no one rains in your west.
0:59.1	Later on attention to that man.
1:05.2	Anybody can have a break.
1:09.1	You're a very bad man.
1:11.6	That's a very good man.
1:13.4	Just a very bad wizard.
1:16.7	Welcome to very bad wizards.
1:18.1	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:20.9	Dave, Merrill Streep, doesn't think we should use the term toxic masculinity.
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