Miles Spencer: What If Goodbye Isn't the End of the Conversation?

What if you could talk to someone you love after they're gone?

Not watch an old video.

Not scroll through photographs.

Not even a seance.

Actually ask them a question and hear them answer.

On this episode of Truth Tastes Funny, Hersh Rephun sits down with entrepreneur, author, and Reflekta AI founder Miles Spencer, whose new "soul tech" venture is using artificial intelligence to create interactive digital legacies from the voices, memories, stories, and values people leave behind.

And Hersh has tried it.

He talked to Miles' late father.

That experience opens a fascinating conversation about memory, grief, technology, family, and what it means to preserve more than someone's image.

Miles shares the deeply personal origin of Reflecta, including his father's words near the end of his life about the body being temporary while spirit and soul endure. Years later, technology finally gave Miles a way to interact with those words, stories, and memories in a form neither of them could have imagined.

Hersh and Miles explore:

• What it feels like to have a spontaneous conversation with someone who is gone
• The difference between preserving memories and interacting with them
• Why a few seconds of recorded voice can preserve something remarkably powerful
• The emotional responsibility that comes with recreating someone we love
• Where digital legacy ends and unhealthy dependence might begin
• Why families lose enormous amounts of history with every generation
• How AI could preserve the wisdom of people long after their deaths
• The ethical line between digital legacy and deepfakes
• And whether future generations have a claim on the stories we're allowing to disappear

Miles also shares the moment his digital version of his father unexpectedly called him "Tiger", just as he had throughout Miles' life.

Miles knew that memory had been entered into the system.

He'd simply forgotten.

His father hadn't.

At its heart, this episode asks a very human question made possible by very new technology:

If someone you loved could answer one more question, what would you ask?

https://milesspencer.com/

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