This paper presents a critical analysis of Lee Sedol’s 2025 Memoir, published a decade after his historic match against AlphaGo. Unlike Garry Kasparov’s Deep Thinking (2017), which seeks the truth behind defeat, Lee’s narrative is characterized by ‘narrative revisionism’ and memory reconstruction designed to provide a post-hoc justification for a heroic myth. By retroactively framing Move 68 as a pre-planned gambit to justify the Divine Move (Move 78), Lee’s account exemplifies the cognitive distortions Charan Ranganath warns against and instantiates the logic of the Orwellian memory hole. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic power, this study examines how Lee’s authority as a dominant narrator neutralizes public critical distance and entrenches an unverified narrative. Ultimately, the paper argues that the replacement of criticism with myth leads to a profound intellectual poverty in discourse on human-machine relations in the AI era and calls for a correction of this constructed and subversive narrative that has taken hold amid collective social silence.
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Abstract 1. Introduction 2. A Revisionist Memoir 3. The Anatomy of Inconsistency: Dissecting Lee Sedol’s View of Go 4. Move 78: Hail Mary Move19) or Engineered Gambit? 5. Two Paths: Lee Sedol and Garry Kasparov 6. The Orwellian Memory Hole: Selective Remembering and Reconstruction 7. Conclusion References
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Lee SedolAlphaGonarrative revisionismbug-triggering theorymemory hole