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The Big Think Interview
The present is a story your brain assembles after the fact
Jim Al-Khalili explains how the past and future are more fluid than we may think.
Jim Al-Khalili
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Perception Box
What’s more real: time itself, or your perception of it?
The brain is an “illusion factory.” Here’s what that means for our perception of time.
Brian Greene, Dean Buonomano & David Eagleman
Unlikely Collaborators
High Culture
What shaped Kurt Vonnegut’s warped conception of time (and death)?
"All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
Tim Brinkhof
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