Nothing Ever Stops Existing
I can’t remember the dress she wore or what she had bought; I can’t remember what we did for the rest of that afternoon; I can’t re-create the exact timbre of her voice or the precise shapes of her features, the lines at the corners of her mouth or the name of her perfume. I only remember the way sunlight through the kitchen window glinted from her... See more
🌻 statement of purpose
IN POINT OF FACT, time is not a river. We possess a great metaphorical tool kit with utensils for every occasion. We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows, and all those are metaphors.
James Gleick • Time Travel: A History
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
... See moreBut, I wondered, if everyone remembered everything, would our differences get shaved away? What would happen to our sense of self? It seemed to me that a perfect memory couldn’t be a narrative any more than unedited security-cam footage could be a feature film.