Dr. David Eagleman

Why?

Because you've lived –

And so now you can sort of think, you can sort of feel what a century might look like.

And you can sort of, with practice, get better at these things.

But the point is that is something we learn how to do, both in space and time.

Obviously, when you're an infant in the crib, space is just a really close thing.

It's your whole world.

It's your whole world.

But eventually you get outside and you look down long highways in Utah and you really start getting a better sense of this world.

To my knowledge, there's no data on what it would be to sort of throw yourself back and forth between these different space-time scales.

I love it, though.

One of the classes I teach at Stanford is called Brain and Literature.

I've always been a lover of literature.

And one of the things that I love is when authors do exactly this, where they zoom in on something really tight and they're really paying attention.

And then they zoom way out.

that is the most extraordinary sort of feeling.

So anyway, I commend you on coming up with that version of space-time meditation or whatever it is.

That's very smart.

That has to do with Ulysses' contract thing, which is just, it requires a commitment to say, I'm going to be the kind of guy who's always on time.

And the way to do that is to say, I'm going to commit to always being five minutes early.