I haven't read it (hadn't even heard of it prior to your post), but I read an essay by Carroll a year or so ago in which he pretty persuasively argued that, in terms of human awareness and experience, there is no such thing as 'the present'. It has to do with the fact that neural impulses in the human body are not instantaneous, so that every thing we think, feel or experience has happened before we think, feel or experience it.
Carroll struck me at the time as an unusually adept thinker and explainer for those of us who can't shake the notion that an electron is something about the size and shape of a small pea. I think I'll get his book. Thanks for mentioning it.
Boru
Carroll struck me at the time as an unusually adept thinker and explainer for those of us who can't shake the notion that an electron is something about the size and shape of a small pea. I think I'll get his book. Thanks for mentioning it.
Boru
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