Philosophy of Time

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Ten short narrated films, one for each turn in the story: from Deutsch's argument that time does not flow to the way the brain builds the present. Each runs about five minutes, with captions.

  1. Episode 1 · 6:03 Does time flow? A six-minute narrated film of Deutsch's argument, told through animations and paintings.
  2. Episode 2 · 5:38 Heraclitus and Parmenides Everything flows, or nothing moves? The first argument about time, in under six minutes.
  3. Episode 3 · 4:48 Zeno's arrow At every instant of its flight the arrow is still. So when does it move? Under five minutes.
  4. Episode 4 · 4:34 Augustine What, then, is time? Memory, attention and expectation: three presents in one mind. Under five minutes.
  5. Episode 5 · 4:41 Newton against Leibniz Empty the universe: is time still there? A container or an order, in under five minutes.
  6. Episode 6 · 4:35 Einstein and Bergson Paris, 1922: the time of clocks against the time we live. Under five minutes.
  7. Episode 7 · 4:31 McTaggart The 1908 proof that time is unreal, and what survives it. Under five minutes.
  8. Episode 8 · 4:44 Why eggs don’t unbreak Entropy and the arrow of time, with Carroll, Price and Rovelli. Under five minutes.
  9. Episode 9 · 4:27 Barbour and Smolin Time does not exist, or time is all there is? Under five minutes.
  10. Episode 10 · 4:39 How the brain builds now Motion blindness, colour phi and the felt present, and a look back over all ten episodes. Under five minutes.

Each film plays on the page it belongs to, alongside the interactive figures. Narration is an AI voice (ElevenLabs); the images are artworks and photographs credited under each film and on the About page.