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We discuss a variety of topics, and include an overview of the things people are enjoying: books, podcasts, documentaries, and movies. This is a discussion group, NOT a debate space. Set your meetup preferences to receive emails, and I'll send one reminder for the meetup, which usually includes a review of the previous meeting and the upcoming topic. If you'd like to read those past summaries, they are on the message board.
This meetup is hosted on Zoom. Feel free to send any questions or feedback. This is a place filled with meaningful conversation and fascinating people. Over several years, we have formed regulars and a wonderfully respectful environment. I hope you will join us!
I started this meetup in 2018 years ago for my mother. She was deeply passionate about philosophy and wanted to share meaningful conversations with others who shared her love of understanding the meaning of life. In December of 2019, my mother passed away at 90 years old. She left a library of more than 1500 books on subjects ranging from philosophy to physics, mythology to world religions.
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Denver Philosophy Meetup
·OnlineOnlineJuly topic: How Do We Experience Time?
Imagine every clock, calendar, phone, and watch disappeared tonight.
Tomorrow morning, how would you know that time exists?
You would notice the sun moving across the sky. You would grow hungry. Conversations would begin and end. Memories would accumulate.
But would any of that prove that time exists?
Or would it merely prove that things change?Time is one of the most familiar parts of our lives and one of the least understood. We measure it constantly, yet our experience of it is anything but constant.
An hour can disappear in conversation and crawl by in a waiting room. Childhood summers can seem endless, while years of adulthood seem to vanish. A moment of crisis can feel stretched out, while months of routine disappear into a blur.
Why?This discussion explores time not as physicists measure it, but as human beings experience it.
We will examine how attention shapes our sense of time, why novelty seems to stretch it and routine compresses it, how anticipation and memory pull us into the future and the past, and whether technology, culture, and mortality influence the way time feels.
Along the way, we'll explore deeper questions:• Does the present moment actually exist?
• Why can we remember the past but not the future?
• Are we experiencing time itself, or are we experiencing
change, memory, attention, and expectation?The central question:
Is time something that happens to us, or something we actively participate in creating?
When have you felt time disappear?
When have you felt every second?
And if two people can live through the same hour yet experience it completely differently, where does time actually exist?
In the world?
Or in the mind?Access the meeting here:
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