The Last Sigh

Forgetting to Be


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It starts with a simple thought about technology and then pulls the rug out from under everything. The conversation wanders into the deep end, following the thread of a hypothetical "memory graph": a perfect digital copy of a person.

From there, it grapples with the fallout. What is left of the original "you"? Are we just the biological processors for our memories? The discussion touches on the chaos this idea creates, the instinct for survival that might be just another pattern, and the mystique of questions that have no easy answers. It ends on the thought that perhaps, to create something new, we first need the ability to forget.

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The Last SighBy Major Vitates