Sten Odenwald

We know a lot about its physical laws.

But there seem to be things that the universe started out with that we really can't understand why they started out that particular way.

You know, if there is some reason for there to be something like time, we want to find out what that reason is.

Yeah, most of us through evolution have been imbued with the brain.

The process is now, you know, connects it with an anticipation of the next second and a memory of the previous second.

And we all do that very reliably.

If we didn't, we would have been extinct a long time ago because we would never been able to figure out our environment, learn from our mistakes, anticipate where a predator is going to be in the future.

So we all come equipped with a basic

you know, version 1.0 brain that processes information in the senses and figures out that there is something like time going on, at least subjectively.

Then there are people that have pathologies, brain pathologies, which are really quite fascinating.

Some people literally only live in now.

They have no memory of past events older than a second.

And what they do is they they are constantly babbling, trying to confabulate what they're experiencing now with what they just experienced a few seconds ago into some kind of a consistent, coherent story.

And

This is a brain pathology that's that's heavily studied, and it shows that there's a way in which our brain is not able to process something as simple as time ordering.

And so the subjective aspect of time is something that's really quite fascinating to study.

A lot of ways in which we can misconstrued what happened, which two things happened before each other, you know, cause and effect.

and stuff like that.

And we're learning a lot about subjective time just by studying the pathologies

But yeah, I think we all generally perceive time as a subjective thing in the same way, the same way that we probably all experience color the same way.