How do you know what's true? - Sheila Marie Orfano

Explore the Rashomon effect, where individuals give significantly different but equally believable accounts of the same event.

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A samurai is found dead in a quiet bamboo grove. One by one, the crime’s only known witnesses recount their version of the events. But as they each tell their tale, it becomes clear that every testimony is plausible yet different. And each witness implicates themselves. What’s going on? Sheila Marie Orfano explores the phenomenon of warring perspectives known as the Rashomon effect.

Lesson by Sheila Marie Orfano, directed by Jeremiah Dickey.

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[ShortHax]

My paranoia when I write an essay:
“What if all my ideas are plagiarized, and I read or saw them somewhere else?”

[JamesTAbernathy]

Ted-Ed: Asks a question.
The answer: Well, it's complicated...

[WhatWouldJohnSay]

The visualization of this is so good! I love the art style that matches the Japanese origins of the effect, and the transition from the biologists graphs to the islands, the depiction of the biases in the film!! They are so well done, I love it

[JohanStarDragon]

This makes me think of something Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson brought up; “one of the lowest forms of evidence you can invoke in science is eye witness testimony. Yet, it’s the highest form of evidence in a court of law, which disturbs me greatly.”

[vitamink]

4:16 "What is truth anyway?" incoming existential crisis.

[sujalgupta]

I swear, if my memory was any worse, I could plan my own surprise party!

[kininagothu]

"You don't remember what happened.
What you remember becomes
what happened."
- John Green

[Lordeevee]

"There's a red bar underneath the video preview, so I must have watched this before... right?"

[Startrper]

It all has to do with perspective. Everyone’s experience is subjective within a certain margin

[tree.]

"can you trust your memories?"
*No. Especially during a test.*

[syedarushda]

"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. "

Now this is something I'd like to remember when remembering

[sameershah]

Sometimes I can't figure out if something I remember actually happened or I day-dreamed it or I sleep-dreamed it. 😅😅

[JaybeePenaflor]

I remember reading "In a Grove" when I was a college freshman. On the surface, it was a very simple story. But the author's exploration of the truth--that biases and perceptions affect how one perceives the truth--made me the sometimes skeptical, but often balanced individual I am today.

[TheDhammaHub]

It is truly amazing how many false memories we have and how easy it is to "induce" them

[jonah]

Me preparing for my exams: panic
Ted-ed: Has uploaded a video
Me: kalm
"Can you trust your memory?"
Me: panic intensifies

[youtube.com-handle]

Parents: you were never like this, you've definitely changed.
me: its the rashomon effect

[antonioarcudi]

Everything about this video is sooo satisfying. The voiceover, the content, the animation, the sound design. Amazing quality.

[dvarrabondiaz]

I see Rashomon, I immediately thought about Akutagawa from Bungou Stray Dogs

[ebitoro]

We learn about the story Rashomon at school here in Japan, but I had no idea there was actually an effect named after it. Kudos to the animator for the great animations as always, the visual examples made the video easy to follow.

[sophjie]

“Rashōmon”
The first thing that comes to my mind: Hold on... is that you Bungo Stray Dogs, sleep deprived, no eyebrows, bangs that look like he cut it himself and cut it too short Ryunosuke Akutagawa that dresses up like a mid 18th century vampire that screams RasHŌMon like that Naruto dude and hair colored like someone put it in blur in ibis paint?