The Ethics of Time

An exploration of how we perceive time and a suggestion that it is, to a limited degree at least, subject to our control.

[Miggus]

I feel so lucky that I found this chanel. Thank you professor

[brady]

Great surprise, I'm enjoying the series.

[Thomas]

That was beautiful Wes. I enjoyed it so much I actually did loose a sense of time.
I'm lazy which most of the people I know or have known think is a defect; au contraire, to me it's a valuable asset which I will defend until death. From an early age, I have always enjoyed the process of contemplating, interrogating and sleep… in that order.
I think I need a servant! Or a home helper at the least. 🤗
Bravo Wes ! Ciao 4 now ☕👍

[LokiBeckonswow]

Hey Wes I would really love to hear a lecture on respect, love your work!

[the_wheelbarrow_of_pathos]

Hey Wes, when will you translation of Thus Spake Zarathustra going to be published? What other books have you published?

[thepercepter]

“The sense of time is made by us” statement is true because of the fact that all of us know what we know by our own human minds or by reading and understanding the information of other human minds . So yes Time as we know is created by us(human beings).

[cheri]

Can thought be measured?
The ending of time is the beginning of intelligence.
What is intelligence? Is there a difference between intellect and intelligence?
Ah, music 🎶

[darrenparis]

More about time perception:

When we blink, our brains erase the time during the blink, so we don't get black flashes. Blinking speeds up time.

Echoic memory is our brains storing the last five seconds or so we just heard and only then retroactively deciphering what it just heard. That's not to say we don't decode in real time, but when we are not paying attention, like when someone calls for us, this is the reason we can understand what they just said.

[neildutoit]

The first part of this is very wrong in my case. "we tend to project in time a self that is very similar and continuous" I did the exact opposite of this when I was a kid. I distinctly remember thinking about whether to plant a tree when I was about 7 years old, and deciding against it because I figured that by the time the tree had grown big enough to climb I would no longer be interested in climbing trees. I'm now 30 years old and I climb trees all the time (mostly rocks though, rock climbing is my main sport at the moment), and I deeply regret not having planted that tree.

[painterQjensen]

The illusion of saving up for when you retire, an age after you are dead.

[AshleyAniston]

44:19 I’d love to hear how this can be applied to notion of “regret”. How often should my past self have been reasonably expected to accurately know what my future self will have wanted?

[JCResDoc]

*i want that 46 mins 55 seconds back.* jk. i listened dbl speed. -JC

[neildutoit]

Also a future where you becomes a Buddhist absolutely does not make a mockery of your savings now. Quite the opposite. you cannot renounce all your possessions unless you have possessions. Buddhist monks will often refuse to accept students who have not yet acquired possessions. You must "succeed" in "normal life" before renunciation can carry any meaning. It's not just about realising that material possessions are meaningless. It's about the process of giving them up.

[notdoneyet]

Am I the only one hearing a bunch of chattering in the background?

[ARefrigerator]

I guess it's ironic that I watched this on 1.25 speed.

[neildutoit]

"Language is temporal" not all languages. Mathematics is not temporal. Perhaps that's why I find it mystical...

[elizabethbrauer]

Please relocate the kindergarten. So much for asmr ...

[alanhere]

Doesn't a clock or a video camera demonstrate that time exists?

[darrenparis]

41:15 Well, I guess that means Gershwin isn't classical then (haha)