Nothing Ever Stops Existing
A video on YouTube. In Video Essays, a Krater category.
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This video examines how three narratives—Pauline Oliveros's last breath, Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life, and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five—explore deterministic universes through teleological versus causal understandings of time and memory.
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Answers: How do Devs, Story of Your Life, and Slaughterhouse-Five explore determinism and time?
- Determinism vs free will
- Teleological vs causal time perception
- Deep listening and auditory memory
- Alien language and perception of time
- Quantum mechanics and non-determinism
What it concludes
- Pauline Oliveros exhaled her final breath into a paper bag before her death, which was later preserved as an art installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
- Charles Babbage argued in the Ninth Bridgewater Treatise that the atmosphere preserves every sound and action ever made, acting as an eternal historian.
- Alex Garland's Devs and Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life present deterministic universes where the future is fixed and every event has a predetermined cause.
- Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five treats time simultaneously, where Billy Pilgrim's unstuckness in time renders cause and effect obsolete.
- Heisenberg and Bohr shattered the classical deterministic view of physics by introducing quantum uncertainty and non-determinism at the subatomic level.
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