Exhalation - Ted Chiang

Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang)

Contents
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate"
"Exhalation"
"What's Expected of Us"
"The Lifecycle of Software Objects"
"Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny"
"The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling"
"The Great Silence"
"Omphalos"
"Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"

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People used to speculate about a thought that destroys the thinker, some unspeakable Lovecraftian horror, or a Gödel sentence that crashes the human logical system. It turns out that the disabling thought is one that we’ve all encountered: the idea that free will doesn’t exist. It just wasn’t harmful until you believed it.

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Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana’s tired of the stereotype. She likes children just fine, but they’re not the standard against which all other accomplishments should be measured. Caring for animals is worthwhile in and of itself, a vocation that need offer no apologies.

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I just want to make sure we’re clear about our motivations. It’d be terrific if our digients learned practical skills, but we shouldn’t think of them as failures if they don’t. Maybe Jax can make money, but Jax isn’t for making money. He’s not like the Draytas, or the weedbots. Whatever puzzles he might solve or work he might do, those aren’t the reason I’m raising him.

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Jax becomes interested in tetrabrake, a subculture focused on virtual dance choreography for four-armed avatars;

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“A new sexual frontier?” says Stuart. “You mean popularizing a kink until it becomes mainstream.” “You could call it that,” says Chase. “But try looking at it another way: our ideas of what constitutes healthy sex have always broadened over time. People used to think homosexuality, BDSM, and polyamory were all symptoms of psychological problems, but there’s nothing intrinsic about those activities that’s incompatible with a loving relationship. The problem was having one’s desires stigmatized by society.

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We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated. We became cognitive cyborgs as soon as we became fluent readers,

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