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How to think about time | Psyche Guides

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Graeme A Forbesspent 10 years as an academic philosopher, and is now a freelance philosophical consultant. He has two books on philosophy of time in press: Philosophy of Time: The Basics (2024) and The Growing Block View (forthcoming, Bloomsbury). He lives in Canterbury, UK. Edited by Sam Dresser Save Share Post Email Change and variation Stretch out your arms to their fullest extent getting the tips of your fingertips on your right hand as far from the fingertips on your left hand as you can. Depending on where you are reading this, that might have been embarrassing, but you will feel like you’ve taken up more space than when you scrunch yourself into a tiny ball. Now do the equivalent in time… You can’t, right? We can spread out in space, but not in time. In time, we experience one thing after another, in a sequence of episodes. This is one of the striking things about time. It does something that space doesn’t do. It passes. You live in time, and whether or not you think about it, t

Change and variation Stretch out your arms to their fullest extent getting the tips of your fingertips on your right hand as far from the fingertips on your left hand as you can. Depending on where you are reading this, that might have been embarrassing, but you will feel like you’ve taken up more space than when you scrunch yourself into a tiny ball. Now do the equivalent in time… You can’t, right? We can spread out in space, but not in time. In time, we experience one thing after another, in a sequence of episodes. This is one of the striking things about time. It does something that…

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