Philosophical Speculations

I did not use the word 'point': ScottRoberts introduced it ('BK's restriction of the present to a point...') . However, that is what BK appears to say when talking of experiencing 'snapshots' ('All we ever actually experience is the present snapshot... ' Science Ideated, p.161). Now the experience o...

I did write that time cannot be understood but that is misleading. In my view it is important to recognise that there are two distinct forms of time. The first is chronological time. This is the time that most people think of when referring to time. It is the time of science and of modern life. This...

In his latest book, Science Ideated, Bernardo asks ‘Do we actually experience the flow of time?’ (ch 22). His answer appears to be' No'. Flow is not possible because actually we can only experience the present: the past is experienced as memory in the present; the future is experienced as expectatio...