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Would you want to remember everything?
Forgetting can feel like a loss of truth or a condition of becoming someone new.
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A little context
You have already forgotten most of your life: nearly all of last Tuesday, most of your seventh year, the faces of almost everyone you have ever passed. Usually you notice only when it hurts, as a name that won't come or a grandparent's voice going faint.
Nearby questions
- The bundle that calls itself ILook for the part of you that watches your thoughts. If you cannot catch it, was it ever there?
- What do you owe the child you used to be?Your body, your memories and your values have all changed since then. Some of that child's hopes are still waiting on you.
- What makes you you?A perfect copy of you could wake up tomorrow with your memories, your habits and your love for your people, certain that it is you.
- What flaw would you refuse to have fixed?What looks like damage from the outside may be carrying part of a person's identity.
- The apology you never madeIf an AI copy of you apologized for something you never said, would you stand by it?
