In a UCI study, participants sat with their heads inside a high-resolution fMRI scanner while watching a TV show and then viewing still frames from the episode, one at a time.
The researchers found that when subjects had more precise answers to questions about what time certain events occurred, they activated a brain network involving the lateral entorhinal cortex and the perirhinal cortex. The team had previously shown that these regions, which surround the hippocampus, are associated with memories of objects or items but not their spatial location.
“Space and time have always been intricately linked, and the common wisdom in our field was that the mechanisms involved in one probably supported the other as well,” added Maria Montchal, a graduate student in Yassa’s lab who led the research. “But our results suggest otherwise.” (1)
Trying to remember then when.
Without caring about the where.
But nothing of these matters.
Because no matter how precisely we recall where or when something happened in the vast dark forest of existence, we will still not be able to answer a much more fundamental question: How did we get in that forest in the first place?
In a cosmos with time, there is no forest.
Nothing but a constantly changing set of beings.
Changing to show that there is nothing to change.
What a weird cosmos…
In a world of change, time has meaning.
But in a world of change nothing is real.
Feel the breeze…
Without any trees to linger in the air…
Time cannot flow.
And without a breeze blowing between the trees…
There are no trees.
Feel the breeze…
Don’t try to explain.
Just…
Feel the breeze…