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Episode 102: Venkatesh Rao

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Is Time Outside of Time?

How do you define time? This is one of the hardest conversesyes, it's really hard to have this conversation. But there are a few ways to get at it, and it's so important. If you look at modern physics based conceptions of time, over the last century, all our familiar intuitions of time are basically breaking down. You can actually construct fundamental theories of physics that don't actually involve an explicit time variable. And time becomes a matter of informational perspective. Then on the subjective psychological understanding of time,. You have the same kind of a sort of effect in extreme regimes. So any time trma, the more foreshortened your sense of time gets, the worse

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