ITF Read: Story of Your Life (1998 novella) ft. Mark Niemann-Ross

Sci-Fi author Mark Niemann-Ross joins the podcast for episode 106
to discuss Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life.” The conversation
surrounding this story gets philosophical, scientific, abstract,
and even bizarre at times. The tale is an unusual one that leads
the group down some intriguing pathways in their analysis as they
wrestle with concepts like the “variational principle” in physics
and “Fermat’s Principle of Least Time.”



Spoilers begin: 36:29



Questions Include: What makes this time-travel story--if you
can call it that--different from the countless others out there?
What do we personally believe about Free Will vs. Determinism?
Were Ted Chiang’s observations about parenting accurate? How much
science is too much, and how much is not enough? What do chickens
know about mathematics?

This commissioned episode was brought to you by our patrons: Cora
S. & Amanda VP.



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Intro music: Ross Bugden