David and Tamler try to wrap their heads around the metaphysics of past and future via the Borges essay(s) “A New Refutation of Time.” What does it mean to be a time skeptic or a time realist for that matter? If you’re a Berkeleyan idealist and Humean skeptic about the self, do you have to deny succession and simultaneity? The world, unfortunately, is real; and we, unfortunately, are Very Bad Wizards.  Plus for centuries philosophers insisted that you couldn’t measure qualia, but then scientists just went ahead and… measured it!   <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCD2A_bhDTI">Scientists Measure Qualia for First Time-It Was Thought To Be Impossible</a> [youtube.com] Kawakita, G., Zeleznikow-Johnston, A., Takeda, K., Tsuchiya, N., & Oizumi, M. (2025). <a href= "https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)00289-5">Is my “red” your “red”?: Evaluating structural correspondences between color similarity judgments using unsupervised alignment</a>. iScience, 28(3). <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Refutation_of_Time">A New Refutation of Time</a> [wikipedia.org] <a href= "https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1947-borges-anewrefutationoftime.pdf"> A New Refutation of Time by Jorge Luis Borges</a> [pdf from gwern.net]

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