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Is time real, or just an illusion? In this video, we explore the groundbreaking philosophy of Henri Bergson, a modern-era thinker who argued that time, as we know it, doesn’t truly exist. While we’ve been conditioned to see time as a linear, measurable entity, Bergson challenges this with his concept of “duration”—time as a continuous, subjective experience.
Dive deep into the philosophical debate between Bergson’s view of lived time and the clock-driven reality we’ve all grown accustomed to. Discover why the past and future might be mental constructs, how our perception of time varies in different moments, and what it means to live fully in the present. By the end, you’ll see time in a whole new light.
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We commonly talk about time as something that moves or flows, but what if that is just an illusion? In this talk, Emily Adlam explains why quantum mechanics and relativity suggest that we should reject the time evolution picture. Modern physics suggests that time isn’t a journey, rather it’s something like a perspective. This new understanding of time could have significant consequences for how we think about our lives and our place in the universe. Emily Adlam is a philosopher of physics working on the foundations of quantum mechanics and the philosophy of time. She did a PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge and was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Western Ontario before moving to Chapman University. She is the author of the textbook Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and winner of the Blaumann’s prize 2023. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.