Borges' Garden of Forking Paths: a ramble through the multiverse

These days the 'multiverse' idea is standard marvel slop. But if we read this story in 1941 it would have blown our tiny little minds. how tf did Borges sit at the cutting edge of philosophy and physics without doing the classic info-dump spergy thing? We read one of our favourite stories in search of Clues (actual plot-related analysis starts around the 1 hour mark)   CHAPTERS (00:00:00) synopsis and throat clearing (00:06:43) Borges the troll (death of the author redux) (00:16:23) How this mf had so many original ideas (00:22:12) Cho Chang discourse (00:30:30) Conceptual analysis of being cool (00:42:20) History of the multiverse (00:52:23) ambiguity of the Liddell Hart intro (01:01:22) Fatalism and free will (01:18:53) What motivates Yu Tsun? (01:25:05) maze strategy chat (01:31:20) When we first encountered the multiverse (01:34:00) Does multiverse imply all possible things happen? (01:49:25) Real hypertext has never been tried