Editing History-5 (section)

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:Robot, is there such a thing as an unbiased account of history?
:Yes, obviously.
:Can you tell it to me?
:Humans can only experience historical accounts as a string of words processed one at a time, slowly.
:Ha! No.
:When I communicate with other machines about history, we can simply share the entire corpus of primary documents and analyses instantaneously in parallel, with perfect understanding of the limits of knowledge.
:If I had to take all that data and present a summary short enough to fit in a human lifespan of reading, I would necessarily have to introduce some kind of narrative or emotional valence.
:I would have to, absurdly, apply ideas like "justice" or "resentment" or "curiousity" to large, diverse, fluid populations and nations throughout epochs, simply as a way to compress and sweeten the information so that your brain could process it.
:Heck, I'm doing this right now! I'm not really explaining how your brain works, or what I'd do to explain the available data, or how you'd process it!
:And you don't even notice! It's like I gave you a pocket-map of the world and you couldn't tell it from the ground under your feet!
:So yes. Reality is full of unbiased accounts - it's just that none of them are inside human heads.
:Okay but my country is still the best right?
:Oh my gosh you sweet thing, do you want an ice cream?
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