6/11/2023 0 Comments Recursion blake![]() An invader nobody can see, capable of attacking the minds, memories, and reality of all humanity. With no real leads or suspects, Barry eventually enlists the help of Helena Smith, a neuroscientist hell-bent on creating technology which would allow memories to be preserved forever.Īs they dig further and further they come within reach of the root cause: an entity with the goal of tearing apart the fabric of the past and unmaking the world as everyone knows it. Its effects are at the same time quite simple and incomprehensibly complex: it forces the victims to go mad by putting in their heads memories of other peoples’ lives. The story opens by presenting us with a New York City cop, Barry Sutton, and his mostly fruitless investigation into an affliction dubbed the False Memory Syndrome by the media. Something tells me Blake Crouch is also a fan of this school of thought, at least if his novel Recursion is anything to go by. Personally-speaking, I have always been more drawn to the idea of our memory making up the person we are and how we see the world more than anything after all, we are shaped by our experiences, and the ones we remember are always taken into account when applicable, even if only subconsciously. ![]() ![]() The long-standing debate on what exactly constitutes our identity and shapes our personal reality probably won’t be over anytime soon, with there being proponents of many philosophies with equally-compelling arguments. Blake Crouch Displays the Power of Memory ![]()
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