COMPLEXITY

Complex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & James Gleick

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Feb 24, 2023
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INSIGHT

Metaphors Shape How We Experience Time

  • James Gleick says metaphors shape our concept of time.
  • He argues metaphors make time feel like a spendable quantity you can save, waste, or bank.
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Cultural Maps Flip Past And Future

  • Ted Chiang highlights that some cultures invert past/future spatial metaphors.
  • He uses the I'mara example to show our time metaphors are culturally bound, not universal.
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Memory Is Statistical Retrodiction

  • David Wolpert frames memories as statistical inferences about the past.
  • He emphasizes records allow confident retrodiction while future prediction remains probabilistic and weaker.
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