The belief that memory is recorded in the brain as a form of writing.
In “Exhalation”, by Ted Chiang, the inscription hypothesis is described as a theory the writer does not subscribe to. It stated that every experience is engraved on sheets of gold foil inside people´s brains. Theory claimed that if these sheets were torn apart by the force of head trauma, anatomists could gather the bits of gold leaf and reconstruct the original sheets in an attempt to decode the symbols in which a deceased’s recent events were written.
The tone is gloomy and kind of dark. Unleashed, tearing, mauling, battle, possessed ,and sharpening. The tone contributes to the authors viewpoint because he or she makes it a dark and foregoing place that nobody would want to be in.
