Tiempo y memoria | Sábados Culturales

In today's program, Fernando Villegas reflects deeply on the concept of time, motivated by a personal experience with an organ grinder who transported him back to his childhood. From there, he develops a philosophical and scientific exploration of the nature of time, its perception, and its relationship to transformation and memory. He refers to Saint Augustine, who claimed to understand time only if he was not asked about it, and also mentions Einstein's theory of relativity, which further complicates the topic by uniting time and space into a single entity. Throughout the episode, Villegas analyzes the passage of time through ruins, such as those of Palmyra, and the possibility of a limited perception of reality similar to Plato's myth of the cave. Finally, he highlights how our perceptual limitations impede an intuitive understanding of time, especially when addressing complex concepts such as the curvature of space-time or large-scale astronomical phenomena. To access the program without commercial interruptions, subscribe to Patreon:   / elvillegas   Main Topics and Their Minutes 00:00:00 - Experience with the organ grinder and childhood memory 00:04:15 - Obsession with time and clocks 00:08:39 - Philosophy of time as transformation 00:13:21 - Reflection on ruins and the past 00:16:59 - Ruins of the future and time as a wave 00:17:26 - Einstein, relativity, and space-time