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The Time-Bound Mind

Bewildered

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Rubber Time

I was thinking about a novel that I really love that I actually studied in high school by Ian McEwen, the British novelist. It's called The Child in Time and there's a physicist character who says time is either nonsense or a tiny fraction of the truth. So maybe if time is that difficult to deal with, maybe that's not our true nature. Maybe that's just the culture because true monochronous cultures have taken over the world but polychronous cultures were much more plentiful all over the world for many, many, many thousands of years. And so before we start talking about how do we come to our senses around time, I just wanted to read this quote,

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