![]() ![]() It was co-sponsored by the UCSB Library and UCSB Arts and Lectures.Ĭhiang said technology has restructured our cognitive functions, particularly our memory, and he predicts this will continue. At the culminating event of the UCSB Reads program, Chiang spoke to a Campbell Hall audience on the complexity and shortcomings of memory. ![]() Since January, UCSB Reads has given away 2,500 copies of Exhalation. “Science fiction offers a way to turn these philosophical questions into something a wider audience can appreciate,” Chiang said, stressing that storytelling works best when abstract ideas are grounded in emotion. Chiang’s book poses philosophical questions of free will, memory, and technology in futuristic worlds. We tell stories to make sense of the world, and science fiction offers a way to explore complex moral dilemmas, award-winning author Ted Chiang told a UC Santa Barbara audience last week.Ĭhiang discussed his science fiction writing and his short story collection Exhalation, which was this year’s selection for UCSB Reads, a program that has for the past 16 years brought the campus and the larger community together over a single book. ![]()
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