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RUNNING OUT OF TIME

Time Doesn't Work The Way We Think It Does, Here's Why

Grant Brunner
Grant Brunner
Time Doesn't Work The Way We Think It Does, Here's Why
The intuitive experience we have of linear time is mostly an illusion. An artifact of our tiny mammal brains.
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Via Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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  1. Joseph Volk 3 months ago

    I have often based my decisions on what some might call intuition. I find it faster and often think analysis paralysis is annoying. For example, the book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, contains much information which many would consider common sense. It's just that Mr. Carnegie took time to put it to words. This seems like what's going on here. The past is the "frozen block." The now is in flux and once a particular element of the now is committed it becomes part of the frozen block and has either caused something in the future to appear to have been pre-determined by the committed element or event, or at least has been influenced in some way so as to have affected the probability of a future event becoming a reality. In one situations, the future may at least be a partially frozen block.

    1. Emiliano Heyns 2 months ago

      Certainly faster than watching all of the 12:35 of the video it seems. The video explains Einsteins' block universe, where "the past is frozen and the future is open" makes little sense, since there is no simultaneity for observers at different speeds -- there is no common "now", and what you call the frozen past can well be someone else's future. Yes, this is unintuitive, but the universe does not owe us that is is intuitive to lay people like us. I trust Einsteins intuitions over our own.

    2. allen morgan 2 months ago

      Sounds like a block chain to me.

  2. Lee Harrington 3 months ago

    Why do voice over artists always have one or two words that they pronounce in a way that no one else in the universe does? This guy's weirdo word is "exist".

  3. Catie D 3 months ago

    If you have PTSD, this is ALREADY how your mind works. Trauma in the past is real and is present now.

  4. Dr. Thomas Meacham 3 months ago

    We are all in Corcosa. The King in Yellow!

  5. einar hammarberg 3 months ago

    I do not think this is correct.
    This should be possible to test by using quantum teory´s entangeled particles.
    I do not think the can be untangeled in the future.

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