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Friday, December 16, 2022

The experience of time

Time Is Way Weirder Than You Think The neuroscientist Dean Buonomano talks expansively about time — what it is and all the ways humans perceive its passing.

...We discuss what time would be in an empty universe without humans, why humans have not evolved to understand time the way we understand space, how our ability to predict the future differs from animals’, why time during the Covid lockdowns felt so bizarre, why scientists think time “flies” when we’re having fun but slows down when people experience near-death accidents, what humans lost when we invented very precise clocks, why some physicists believe the future is already determined for us and what that would mean for our ethical behavior, why we’re so bad at saving money, what steps we could take to feel as if we’re living longer in time, why it’s so hard — but ultimately possible — to live in the present moment and more... LISTEN https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-dean-buonomano.html?smid=em-share

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