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Time Matters

Undeceptions with John Dickson

CHAPTER

Is There a Need for the Present?

Meghan O'Brien argues that we shouldn't preference the present, whatever it looks like. She says physics may have no need for the present but there's something profound here. We care a whole lot more about stuff that's going to happen in the nearby future than we care about things that are going to happen long time from now.

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