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In Man in the High Castle, Philip K Dick calls this historicity. A shopkeeper shows two necklaces, indistinguishable from each ither but one was worn by Sitting Bull and the other is a fake. One has historicity and the other is basically worthless. But the knowledge of the historicity is inspiring and makes it valuable. The power of human perspective.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity




I like the idea that if you took both necklaces and shuffled them around in a way that neither you nor the shopkeeper knew which was which and then gave them both back to him, you would have essentially robbed him without taking anything from him.


You would have destroyed information.




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