lili

Currently reading… We speak of saving time, killing time, serving time, keeping time, not having time, tracking time, bedtime, time outs, buying time, good times, time travel, overtime, free time, lunchtime… We quite literally, live and die by the clock. So why then is time so hard to define? Saint Augustine once mused about this very conundrum, “What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to he who asks, I do not know.” Dean Buonomano, professor of psychology and neurobiology at UCLA wagers a very, very, educated guess with this book. He breaks down both the biological perception of time, and physicists’ most up to date (there it is again) understanding of how best time describes our universe. He argues that the complex, chaotic system of the human brain hasn’t merely evolved to simply perceive time, it creates it, enabling us to mentally time travel and so allowing us to predict what will happen, when it will happen, and how best to react to it when it does happen. With out the ability to predict the future, the human animal could have never crafted tools or invented agriculture. Your brain, is at its core, a time machine. Stay curious. 🧠