Nothing Ever Stops Existing
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different
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“An engine for the imagination”: an interview with David Holz, CEO of AI image generator Midjourney
James Vincenttheverge.com
At a certain point, all memory is fiction. What we retain of the past is selective—our brain typically glosses over the finer details—even the substance of it is subject to change. Our past, much like our present and future, is fluid, constantly running, and not even Memory can step in that same river twice. The memoir, however, attempts to fix
... See moreAt a certain point, all memory is fiction. What we retain of the past is selective—our brain typically glosses over the finer details—even the substance of it is subject to change. Our past, much like our present and future, is fluid, constantly running, and not even Memory can step in that same river twice. The memoir, however, attempts to fix... See more
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Story of Your Life- Ted Chiang Thoughts
it has been a few days since i read this but maybe thats better to gwt a somewhat lasting impression of my thoughts of it. what sticks out most is its relation to my thoughts on time and how humans perceive it. how we look at it like a chronological timeline but whos to say it exists like that? when we exist
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