I don’t wish to take the chance." endobj "If you speak slowly, you pause very briefly after each word. Where I come from, we call them ‘words.’ When we write, we leave spaces between the words.". Vivid reminders of the way she and I yelled at each other in the past might have kept our anger fresh, and prevented us from rebuilding our relationship. Let each spend his time as he pleases.". ", "Does it? And since Shangev was the son of Kwande, our clan should join with the Kwande clan, who live to the south. "I remembered it too, or at least I thought I did. This doesn’t mean I’ve changed my mind about the downsides of digital memory; there are many, and people need to be aware of them. There is scarcely a legal proceeding, criminal or civil, that doesn’t make use of someone’s lifelog, and rightly so. When my daughter Nicole was an infant, I read an essay suggesting that it. He talked about the European god, and told people that following his rules would improve their lives, but his explanations of how that would do so weren’t particularly persuasive. ", That would be impressive, if true. She looked uncomfortable, uncertain of where I was going with this. He felt like an impatient child on the return trip, wishing he could ride the truck all the way back instead of having to walk from the motor road. First, it is ridiculed. Tell the truth about what you are thinking. I wasn’t going to try using Remem to answer this question; I needed to go to the source. The ease of searching that Remem provides is impressive enough, but that merely scratches the surface of what Whetstone sees as the product’s potential. Votes: 2. So it hasn’t been my habit to engage in doomsaying whenever a new product is announced; I’ve welcomed new technology as much as anyone. It’ll be as if childhood amnesia is a characteristic of humanity’s childhood, and in ouroboric fashion, our youth will vanish from our memories. But according to our customer analytics, our users haven’t been doing that. "Was I completely making it up that you and I got along then? I won’t forget what I want to say, but I might forget the best way to say it. For years parents have been recording their children’s every moment, so even if children weren’t wearing personal cams, their lifelogs were effectively already being compiled. ", I closed both windows, and Deirdre said, "Without Remem, I’d never be able to convince him that he changed his position. Writing let you look at your thoughts in a way you couldn’t if you were just talking, and having seen them, you could improve them, make them stronger and more elaborate. He read his first attempt to one of his age-mates, who pronounced it terrible, leading them to have a brief shoving match, but afterwards Jijingi had to admit his age-mate was right. ", "No, I can teach it to you. ", "I am Jijingi, and my father is Orga of the Shangev clan. <> I didn’t mention that not everyone considered that a positive development. The inability to remember the first few years of one’s life—what psychologists call childhood amnesia—might soon be a thing of the past. Why was only the witness sworn in?" Even if each of us could have refrained from throwing the other’s bad behavior in their faces, the opportunity to privately rewatch video of our arguments seems like it could be pernicious. ", "You write them all down before you even deliver them. When I raised the possibility that a perfect memory might be a handicap to Whetstone’s spokesperson, Erica Meyers, she had a ready reply. ", "Here we are descendants of Shangev," said Jijingi. "Last time you said, ‘the Uyengi captured the women and children and carried them off as slaves.’ This time you said, ‘they made slaves of the women, but they did not stop there: they even made slaves of the children.’", "It is the same story, but you’ve changed the way you tell it. I became a fan of Ted Chiang after reading The Lifecycle of Software Objects [], one of the best science fictional explorations of artificial intelligence, winner of the 2011 Locus Award for Best Novella and the Hugo Award for Best Novella.Now, Chiang’s new novella The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling [] explores memory and its technological augmentations, from writing to total recall. At least forty years ago, I think. <> I started skimming through the video, looking for inconsistencies that would indicate where the edited footage had been spliced in. . I had imagined a narrative of redemption and self-improvement in which I was the heroic single father, rising to meet the challenge. Then he asked Jijingi, "How do you like it? ", I wasn’t sure how to begin. I knew it wasn’t premeditated malice on her part—I don’t think she engaged in much premeditation in anything during that phase of her life—but she couldn’t have come up with a more hurtful accusation if she’d tried. ='�D߆R��W%2�*4�p]/�"]�;H5aȽU���A�v�)�n�f?��p|��"�����l�݆I�����:��\��I���Q���s%��ey�X��R~",YB��������Tڧ��en� ���%^��&�g;�������ćmAc��X8I����z����m�Y*�"���h=J))ɞ��� 祰Z�|�.b���@Ee�bt�l�R/�����M�no�EM�w8n��|��% ��}i�L�l�T�s+*�q)�� When the public interest is involved, finding out what actually happened is important; justice is an essential part of the social contract, and, you can’t have justice until you know the truth. Writing helped him think more clearly, he couldn’t deny that; but that wasn’t good enough reason to trust paper over people. "Shall we take a trip? You’re a scribe because Maisho of the Kwande clan warned me about the boys from the mission school. Sometimes he could follow along, but it was often confusing because Kokwa’s words didn’t match what was written on the paper. “Yes, it is very true, that. Before even one person has heard a sermon, you have written it down for future generations. I’m Tiv, so I don’t pause when I speak. Was she hiding her true feelings so well that I couldn’t detect them? The sounds a person made while speaking were as smooth and unbroken as the hide of a goat’s leg, but the words were like the bones underneath the meat, and the space between them was the joint where you’d cut if you wanted to separate it into pieces. "I want to be sure I give my sermons as well as possible. Jijingi sat next to Sabe and recorded the details of each dispute in a book the officer had left. – Albert Einstein. The subsequent footage showed Nicole running out of the house, just as I remembered, so there wouldn’t be signs of inconsistency there. There was indeed a dispute among the Tiv in 1941 over whom the Shangev clan should join with, based on differing claims about the parentage of the clan’s founder, and administrative records did show that the clan elders’ account of their genealogy had changed over time. Jijingi wanted to write down some of the stories of where the Tiv people came from, but the storytellers spoke rapidly, and he wasn’t able to write fast enough to keep up with them. He picked one he remembered. endobj Before long the other boys grew bored and left, but because Jijingi remained interested in writing and his father thought it would keep the Europeans happy, he was eventually permitted to go every day. There are no photos of that moment, so I know the recollection is mine and mine alone. How much of what had happened since then could I take credit for? <>>> That was an event I had recorded myself, so I had footage of Nicole’s face, and she seemed genuinely happy in my presence. ", Jijingi knew a boy who was always complaining and looking for ways to avoid work; it would be a disaster if someone like him had power over Sabe. She’s smart and dedicated to her job at an art museum when she could be earning more money elsewhere, and I’ve always been proud of her accomplishments. I told her how I felt like I had turned around as a father and rebuilt our relationship, culminating in a moment of bonding at her college graduation. "We Shangev all have one father, so we should all remain together. Right now each of us is a private oral culture. Sabe can recite his ancestors all the way back to Tiv himself. ; it would be tempting to conclude I had come farther to reach where I currently was, but I couldn’t trust my perceptions anymore. 2,626 Written Quotes. With our memories we are all guilty of a Whig interpretation of our personal histories, seeing our former selves as steps toward our glorious present selves. You look to paper to tell you what you should already know, here." Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact. When you fully integrate this truth you are ready to create miracles in your life. Moseby came to watch sometimes, but he found the proceedings confusing, and often asked Jijingi questions afterwards. ", "Not delusional. As someone whose identity was built on organic memory, I’m threatened by the prospect of removing subjectivity from our recall of events. It was when Nicole was sixteen, a junior in high school. Jijingi carefully copied the writing on his sheet of paper, and when he was done, Moseby would look at it. Nicole wasn’t openly derisive, but her expression caused me to stop talking; it was obvious I was embarrassing myself. You could not find the places where words began and ended by listening. ", "You’re a poor storyteller, but the story was interesting enough. "This wouldn’t have happened when I was a boy.". Here was the line at which the pursuit of truth ceased to be an intrinsic good. It had been two years since her mother Angela had left, probably the two hardest years of both our lives. Moseby explained to Jijingi how each sound a person spoke could be indicated with different marks on the paper. For now, just leave spaces in the places where I leave spaces.". But I also wonder if another reason is that, subconsciously, we regarded our, episodic memories as such an integral part of our identities that we were reluctant to externalize them. The earliest birthday I remember is my fourth; I remember blowing out the candles on my cake, the thrill of tearing the wrapping paper off the presents. "Fucking typical. 4 0 obj But Moseby also had some skill at dispensing medicine, and he was willing to learn how to work in the fields, so gradually people grew more accepting of him, and Jijingi’s father let him visit Moseby occasionally to learn the art of writing. The elders in the western farms were right, and Sabe was wrong: Shangev was not Kwande’s son, he was Jechira’s. . "This art you spoke of, interpreting marks on paper; is it only for Europeans? The most difficult art of all is speaking the truth. And while I wasn’t that man anymore, I couldn’t deny that I was continuous with him. Instead I will say that, it’s easier for me to appreciate the benefits of literacy and harder to recognize everything it has cost us. The truth about my behavior won’t be presented to me by someone else, making me defensive; it won’t even be something I’ll discover as a private shock, prompting a reevaluation. It’s been more than twenty years since I read that essay, and in that period our lives have undergone countless changes that I couldn’t have predicted. There’s something more real than facts, and that’s Truth: God’s Word. But the reason I now recommend Remem is not for the shameful reminders it provides of your past; it’s to avoid the need for those in the future. Her kinsman Anongo has tried to convince her to stay with her husband, but Girgi refuses, and there is no more Anongo can do. So it wouldn’t be correct to say that their histories are unreliable; their histories do what they need to do. My first interview was with a married couple whom I’ll call Joel and Deirdre, an architect and a painter, respectively. "You are right, I am not good at the Tiv language. And that means we don’t really know ourselves. "Selling vegetables to pay back bridewealth," he said afterwards, shaking his head. It was a few years later that Sabe began attending a series of meetings of all the chiefs in the Shangev clan. ", Moseby looked thoughtful. ", "No, not at all. But the paper that the missionary was looking at was obviously of a different sort, and must have had some other purpose. If we’d had Remem, would we still be speaking to each other? ", "That makes sense," said Moseby. . If the person you’re talking to says "the last time we were at the beach," Remem will bring up the video. Years. "Of course we know! "This paper tells the story of Adam. All the time he’d spent studying writing had made him think like a European. If he left tomorrow morning, he could reach the motor road in time to get a ride. While all lifelogging software has privacy controls in place, most people also grant, basic sharing rights: if your actions were recorded in their lifelog, you have access to the footage in which you’re present. The administration wanted to have a written record of all the disputes brought before the tribal courts, so they were assigning each chief one of these youths to act as a scribe. All truth passes through three stages. But now…well, it’s not as if it fixes everything, is it?". - don Miguel Ruiz. Would I want to be presented with actual footage of that afternoon? "Our language has two words for what in your language is called ‘true.’ There is what’s right, . During his sermons Moseby would read aloud stories from his book, and they were often good stories, but he also read aloud words he had written down just a few days before, and those were often not stories at all, merely claims that learning more about the European god would improve the lives of the Tiv people. She was obviously curious about why I’d come. %���� endobj endobj He told you the story with his whole body, and you understood it the same way. "But that doesn’t mean he was lying." But many of the specific details I’ve described are invented. Now with Remem, finding the exact moment has become easy, and. Umem produces a witness, who is sworn in. ", When I asked her about couples like Joel and Deirdre, she said, "If your marriage is solid, Remem isn’t going to hurt it. But, contrary to what President Trump told TIME Magazine, truth is not a feeling. Implicit in that assertion was a claim about what qualified as a solid marriage. 17 0 obj When Deirdre fact-checked her husband’s previous statements, she was posing explicit queries to Remem. When a man speaks, we make marks on the paper. ... Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. This is an annotated clipping! That’s why we leave a space in those places when we write. Just…let’s not do it again for a while, okay? They’re unstable. And it’s not only for use when speaking with someone else; Remem also monitors your subvocalizations. Or, if our relationship had actually improved, how had that happened? "Where you or I would see nothing but some disturbed grass, he can see that a leopard had killed a cane rat at that spot and carried it off," his father said. Facts, like feelings, are unreliable. If there are any, they’d be stored at the government station in Katsina-Ala.", A truck carried goods along the motor road into Katsina-Ala every fifth day, when the market was being held, and the next market would be the day after tomorrow. I fed you with milk, not solid He has no authority to punish us, but our making him welcome will please the men in the administration.". x��Xmo�H���؏P����{�� However, I’ve been much more skeptical about the use of lifelogging in purely personal situations. He tried writing out his sermon a second time and then a third before he became tired of it and moved on to other topics. Once he found the one he wanted, he could hold on to it for as long as he needed, Out of curiosity, Jijingi tried imagining he had to deliver a sermon, and began writing down what he would say. For months you argued that he was innocent. And while I thought I’d been doing a good job of being a father, obviously I needed to do better. For example, recently we were talking about the McKittridge kidnapping case.". Hadn’t we gotten past this? With Remem providing only the unvarnished facts, my image of myself will never stray too far from the truth in the first place. When people want to find out who they’re descended from, they can consult paper. John is in Paris. We became cognitive cyborgs as soon as we became fluent readers, and the consequences of that were profound. Within our minds, each of us will be transformed from an oral culture into a literate one. I sure as hell would be better off without you." 7 0 obj I’ve made mistakes." By contrast, we’ve historically resisted such aids when it comes to episodic memory; few people have ever kept as many diaries or photo albums as they did ordinary books, . 16 0 obj Something occurred to me. In the past, a young woman might be promised to an old man with leprous hands and rotting teeth, and have no choice but to marry him. He explained to Jijingi that the Europeans no longer wished to deal with so many chiefs, and were demanding that all of Tivland be divided into eight groups they called ‘septs.’ As a result, Sabe and the other chiefs had to discuss who the Shangev clan would join with. By fixing every detail of an insult in indelible video, it could prevent the softening that’s needed for forgiveness to begin. "I write the words down so I do not forget what I want to say when I give the sermon. Tribal court was held every month, from morning until late afternoon for three days in a row, and it always attracted an audience, sometimes one so large that Sabe had to demand everyone sit to allow the breeze to reach the center of the circle. Jijingi had seen paper before; when the Europeans collected taxes, they gave paper in return so that the village had proof of what they’d paid. But maybe they will feel just as warmly about their lossless digital memories as I do of my imperfect, organic memories. I did not write this! Did Nicole even have positive feelings about me now? ", "Of course. Many. This art of the Europeans must be similar: those who were skilled in interpreting the marks could hear a story even if they hadn’t been there when it was told. ", "Yes, but Shangev was Kwande’s son." ", "Sorry you said it, or sorry that you imagined me saying it? Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. Nicole had been drafted into her role, with no say whatsoever. Nicole’s accusation made me realize her predicament was worse than mine. The sounds that came from a person’s mouth hadn’t changed, but he understood them differently; he was aware of the pieces from which the whole was made. "But let’s be clear: you don’t come running to me every time you feel guilty over treating me like crap. In fact, I suspect I no longer remember the day itself. It just sounds like both sides have equally good claims, and there’s no way to tell who’s right. "You are my kin, Jijingi, and kin to everyone in this village. In the past, the elders said, you conducted exchanges with similar items: if you wanted a goat, you could trade chickens for it; if you wanted to marry a woman, you promised one of your kinswomen to her family. You and I are speaking right now, and neither of us needs paper to do so. Related topics: Inspirational Love Values Live-By. I’m asking them to trust the men who were elders when you were young. Did the Europeans make them liars? Anyway. -U��w�>T��I��+��6���736��v���`��y晙�,��gvy��j��=�1����������TL0��X�{��a�~or�｝I�����E�If7,В��]�%��C��݅���~�ˀ �e׿�{�؟��p5el��lIG1i�05�`�;bDD~_����1�����uKx��!�4�:'���_�����4��cv���9[ݳYt�_tjt�E� ʺ��:�CX��ׁ8���74�8^$ˇ�D�P�����i���.�p\XfÐ۰5�m o����:Y�A��j8҃o�p�0���pd�I����"P!���B7�8%�{�҄X�Vkn+�t�dW�s�>�1z��l�{5�! "Do you remember that day?". "Very good. With no knowledge of Italian, Shereshevskii was able to quote stanzas of, that had been read to him fifteen years earlier. "I have." ", Jijingi pointed at the words on the page. The paper version of the story was curiously disappointing. Regarding the role of truth in autobiography, the critic Roy Pascal wrote, "On the one side are the truths of fact, on the other the truth of the writer’s feeling, and where the two coincide cannot be decided by any outside authority in advance." A separate video window opened up, an excerpt of her lifelog that she looked up and broadcast to the people they’ve been talking with. Jijingi spoke very slowly, the way a man might when trying to hide his drunkenness. "I know you think highly of all your sermons, but today’s sermon was a good one. - don Miguel Ruiz Related topics: Inspirational Love Values Live-By The words of truth are always paradoxical. 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 for each of us, and a reflection of our personalities. "Why is there no space in between, is one word. But in my choice of which details to include and which to omit, perhaps I have just constructed another story. Aug 24, 2015 - Explore haribird's board "The Truth vs. I typically write for the news section, but I’ve written feature stories as well, and so when I pitched an article about the potential downsides of Remem to my managing editor, he gave me the go-ahead. That may be about to change. . If Batur and Iorkyaha were here, they would agree with me that we should join with the Kwande clan. But if you’re the type of person who’s constantly trying to prove that you’re right and your spouse is wrong, then your marriage is going to be in trouble whether you use Remem or not.". Now a woman could marry the man she favored, as long as he could afford to pay the bridewealth. <> Our relationship didn’t improve overnight, but over the years I was able to work myself back into Nicole’s good graces. ", "Sure," she said. <> Third, it is … ", "That’s not what you said. I didn’t remember who else was sitting at the table, and wondered if Remem could help me identify them. "I do not see it here. Anongo agrees. Over the course of the next several days everyone took time off from harvesting the guinea-corn to help lay bricks, sink posts into the ground, weave grass into thatch for the roof. We are all brothers. "It is strange, isn’t it? endstream The words were just as I remembered them, but it wasn’t Nicole saying them. But you need to leave spaces when you write.". How much can you? Quotes About Telling the Truth “To tell the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.” Glen Duncan “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” William Shakespeare “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” Buddha "I don’t know. Shouldn’t my writing be the same? Nicole gave a brief, rueful laugh. The resulting lifelog was of course highly fragmentary compared to what I would have had if I’d been recording video myself, and the footage was all from a third-person perspective rather than the first-person that most lifelogs have, but Remem was able to work with that. But I remembered it differently. <> Sabe instructs Anongo to repay Umem £11, the first payment to be in three months when his crops are saleable. But more than that, it would move the Tiv down the path of regarding paper as the source of truth; it would be another stream in which the old ways were washing away, and he could see no benefit in it. And so forth many times. “The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going … "Very many." Before a culture adopts the use of writing, when its knowledge is transmitted exclusively through oral means, it can very easily revise its history. Episodic memory will become entirely technologically mediated. ", "I’m not asking the clan to trust me. What digital memory will do is change those stories from fabulations that emphasize our best acts and elide our worst, into ones that—I hope—acknowledge our fallibility and make us less judgmental about the fallibility of others. Finally, they were satisfied, and Sabe resumed his walk. So I had indeed fabricated a narrative that bore little resemblance to reality. If only the Shangev clan had been using paper long ago. I hadn’t been conscious of it, but I realized that I had been thinking of myself as the greatest victim of Angela’s departure, wallowing in self-pity over just how unreasonable my situation was. And what will the consequences be when people can claim to remember their infancy? he asked. For all practical purposes, she can write. We rewrite our pasts to suit our needs and support the story we tell about ourselves. But when Whetstone released its new search tool Remem, it raised concerns for me in a way none of its predecessors did. "Whom did the Europeans ask? They were written in the European language, which Jijingi couldn’t read, but they included diagrams of the ancestry of the various clans, and he could identify the Tiv names in those diagrams easily enough, and Moseby had confirmed that his interpretation was correct. "No, that is not why I write them down.". As he practiced his writing, Jijingi came to understand what Moseby had meant; writing was not just a way to record what someone said; it could help you decide what you would say before you said it. The point is not to prove you were right; the point is to admit you were wrong, Because all of us have been wrong on various occasions, engaged in cruelty and hypocrisy, and we’ve forgotten most of those occasions. 30 Quotes About Speaking the Truth (when Everyone Else is Lying) There was one occasion when a friend of mine shared fake news they like from a counterfeit website called “CCTN-TV” (it’s a fake of the official websites CCTN47.com and CCTN.org). It actually, to me." The only way you can judge is by comparing my account against the recordings themselves, so I’m doing something I never thought I’d do: with Nicole’s permission, I am granting public access to my lifelog, such as it is. If you say "remember dancing the conga at that wedding? . <> I had obviously been a much worse father fourteen years ago than I’d thought. In that way the second man can hear what the first man said.". "Remem didn’t give them a scorekeeping mentality; they developed that on their own. Nicole had been keeping a lifelog since she was a teenager, so an unexpectedly large segment of my domestic life was present. Another couple could just as easily use Remem to realize that they’ve both misremembered things, and become more forgiving when that sort of mistake happens. Spend some time using Remem, and you’ll find out. review 1: This short story is split into two parts. . In the land I come from, many people write down their lineage on paper. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. She asked questions of everyone, not just the elders but young men, too, even women and children, and she wrote down everything they told her. Anyone who has wasted hours surfing the internet knows that technology can encourage bad habits. I figured I’d start with the argument I remembered clearly, and work backwards from there. The Truth Of Fact, The Truth Of Feeling (2013) by Ted Chiang (Favorite Author) 4.27 of 5 Votes: 4. languge. ", "Anongo didn’t lie," said Jijingi. But writing didn’t do that. ", For a moment Kokwa stared at him, and then he laughed. The inconvenience acted as a barrier, limiting the searching of lifelogs to those situations in which effort was warranted, namely situations in which justice was the motivating factor. Moseby said she was "a person who learns about other people" but could not explain what that meant, only that she wanted to learn about Tivland. They can change in the blink of an eye. The correction must have been displayed at the same time as the initial search result, but I hadn’t noticed. Quotes about Truth. It was the final dispute of the day, by which time Sabe was clearly tired. ", "I don’t expect that. "Could the western Shangev join a different sept from the southern Shangev? Sabe had Jijingi come forward, and to the officer he said, "I know you don’t have enough scribes for all of Tivland. "Questions of kinship cannot be resolved by paper. "You’re right, Sabe," he said. I don’t mean to say that forgetting is the only way to mend relationships. And if you think I’ve been less than honest, tell me. "She pretty much saved my life. ", "Yes, but your ancestor Tiv was descended from Adam, just as my ancestors were. Anongo says he has no money at the moment, and moreover that he was only paid £6. Helpful Not Helpful. ". Yet here was digital video proving that I had been exactly that kind of father. I could readily imagine a situation where, if you ask a young person what her earliest memory is, she will simply look baffled; after all, she has video dating back to the day of her birth. The actual events were more complicated and less dramatic, as actual events always are, so I have taken liberties to make a better narrative. ", Nicole stared at me for a long time. But the marks on it were copied from older paper. Science Fiction. Digital memory will not stop us from telling stories about ourselves. I said that even people who are obviously guilty deserve a fair trial. "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." ", "Wait, you don’t know who Shangev’s parents were?". "This paper is the story you told last year, and there were many differences." But there is a sense in which she has lost the ability to write. When another man looks at the paper later, he sees the marks and knows what sounds the first man made. I was about to search for information on forging a digital watermark to prove this video was faked, but I stopped myself, recognizing it as an act of desperation. And it is just what some people will not do. Truth shafaaf hai, Truth aafaqi hai, Truth hamesha qaim rehti hai, sach aik hai aur sachaai khuda hai. 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