Time
After watching the Ted talk and listening to the podcast I found both very interesting. I was fascinated by the podcast because the concept of time is something that I have looked into a lot and especially hearing the physicist talk about the theory of relativity was very interesting. I was really intrigued by the free will conversation. How we would like to think that we are in control of things and that choice is possible when in reality it’s not, at least not in a single universe. The experiment about how our brain is already preparing itself to do something before we know we want to do it was fascinating. It really begs the question of who is doing it, is our brain acting outside of our conscious knowing? We think we are telling our brain to do things but our brain is telling us. Regarding choice, I find it interesting that in this universe we technically have no choices, everything that is ever going to happen is going to happen one way. In parallel universes we chose different things and in result live different lives. Every choice you have had to make has played out differently in parallel universes. When they were saying how every moment that has already happened or is going to in the future has already happened and will always be happening. Each moment is a distinct moment that goes on forever. As for the Ted talk, I was completely mind-blown by what he was able to accomplish. He slowed time down for his body, somehow was able to slow his heart rate and other functions to such a slow rate that time seemed to be irrelevant. According to previous medical standards he would have been dead or had serious brain damage from lack of oxygen, however he was fine. The concept of time is something that I still don’t understand and I’m not sure I ever will. It’s something we all experience differently, and yet we try to live on the same clock. We’ve created this standard time in order for our commercial world to operate. Time was made for business.
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