What is the future?

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Hello and welcome back to Mind Over Chatter! This second series is all about the future - and in this first episode we’re going to be considering what the future even is… Have you ever wondered how time works? It turns out, the answer is a lot more complicated than we thought. Please fill out our survey https://forms.gle/r9CfHpJVUEWrxoyx9 to tell us what your mind thinks about our chatter. Knowing what you think will really help us make the podcast even better… Now, on to the episode! Join our wondering and wonderful conversation with philosopher of science Matt Farr, professor of psychology Nicky Clayton, and professor of linguistics and philosophy, Kasia Jaszczolt. We’ll be talking about everything from physics to linguistics… and from broken eggs to Einstein’s theory of relativity. This episode was produced by Nick Saffell, James Dolan and Naomi Clements-Brod. Annie Thwaite and Charlotte Zemmel provide crucial research and production support for Series 2. [00:00] - Introductions [02:10] - A bit about the guests’ research [04:28] - Does time actually go from past to present to future? And does time really ‘flow’? [06:04] - The A-theory of time and John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart [07:53] - The B-theory and C-theory of time (and a little bit more about the A-theory too) [09:53] - How do B-theorists deal with entropy? Can you un-break an egg? [10:44] - The difference between the A-theory, B-theory and C-theory of time - does time have a direction? And does energy/

Published 2021-03-26 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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