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Living forwards from the future

Posted in How to live, Philosophy and culture, Transformation and inspiration, Weirdness of time, tagged , , , on 17 December, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Remember how a little while ago I was thinking about time?  Well, I was saving up the absolute best bit.  Not only is the best bit about time, it’s the best bit – my favourite, juiciest insight – from doing the Landmark Forum. “The main presumption of existence,” according to Laurel Sheaf, a Landmark Forum [...]

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Real time

Posted in Art and exhibitions, Philosophy and culture, Weirdness of time, tagged , , , on 21 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a great video by the designer, Maarten Baas, that brings together two ideas I’ve mentioned recently: time  how knitting is like work made visible. Here, Baas shows time made visible. ***** For more information on Baas, see his site: http://www.maartenbaas.com. *****

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What happens when nothing happens

Posted in Philosophy and culture, Weirdness of time, tagged , , , , , on 17 November, 2009 | 4 Comments »

This is the hypothesis about time so far.  We experience time speeding up as we get older because our experience of novelty decreases.  The novelty hypothesis also works for another clue about time’s weirdness.  Our experience of time fluctuates.  Within the general trend of speeding up, we experience “local” differences where one block of time is faster or [...]

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Dog year time

Posted in Philosophy and culture, Weirdness of time, tagged , , , , on 15 November, 2009 | 6 Comments »

The thing that terrifies me about time is how it’s speeding up as I get older.  Months pass like weeks, and weeks like weekends. This is my second clue about time’s weirdness. To talk to most people, this is a common experience. Yet I did once find a man who didn’t have this experience.  He [...]

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It’s the Romans wot did it

Posted in Philosophy and culture, Weirdness of time, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 10 November, 2009 | 10 Comments »

For the last few years I’ve begun to think that time is not what I think it is.  I’ve been collecting a few clues, and in the next post or two I want to think out loud about them. The first clue is a biggie.  It’s that time meant an awful lot to Martin Heidegger, [...]

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