Do we really live in the present? | Rupert Sheldrake, Timothy Morton, J.K., Curt Jaimungal

Rupert Sheldrake, Timothy Morton, J.K. and Curt Jaimungal discuss the present. Does the present really exist? Can we experience it? With a free trial, you can watch the full debate now - in the present - at https://iai.tv/video/the-phantom-of-t... We don't know the past or the future, but we think we know the present. The moment of the present, T. S. Eliot's 'still point of the turning world', provides us with our observations of the world, the evidence for science, and the content of our consciousness. Yet, philosophers and neuroscientists have argued the present is unattainable and unknowable. Poststructuralists like Derrida claim there is no 'now' that provides direct and immediate access to meaning. Our descriptions are part of a shifting web of meaning that we can never get to the bottom of and which is limited by culture and history. Moreover, leading neuroscientists claim the reality we perceive in the present is a form of hallucination, or interface, evolved for survival. Do we need to give up the idea that the present is a moment of truth that provides the reality of experience? Are our descriptions of the present always undecidable and indeterminate? Or is the notion of a fixed present essential if we are to create and judge our theories and accounts of reality, without which we would be hopelessly lost? #time #livinginthepresent #present #past #future 00:00 Introduction 00:20 Rupert Sheldrake on retrocausality 04:10 Timothy Morton on time 06:18 Rupert Sheldrake: Is the present a process or a state? 10:15 Kafka, cats and self-fulfilling prophecies Winner of the Orange First Novel prize, J. K.'s works include A Field Guide to Reality, The Ice Museum and Inglorious. Her journalism has appeared in the London Review of Books, The Guardian, and the New York Times. Timothy Morton is the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. A member of the object-oriented philosophy movement, Morton's work explores the intersection of object-oriented thought and ecological studies. Morton has published numerous books including 'Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence', 'The Ecological Thought' and 'Hyposubjects: On Becoming Humane'. Rupert Sheldrake is a scientist, author, and parapsychology researcher. At Cambridge University, he worked in developmental biology as a Fellow of Clare College. He was Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Hyderabad, India. Hosted by Curt Jaimungal, renowned filmmaker and presenter. He is founder and host of the legendary ‪@TheoriesofEverything‬ YouTube podcast that explores cutting-edge topics in physics, consciousness, free will and AI with some of the leading experts in the world. The Institute of Art and Ideas features videos and articles from cutting edge thinkers discussing the ideas that are shaping the world, from metaphysics to string theory, technology to democracy, aesthetics to genetics. Subscribe today! https://iai.tv/subscribe?utm_source=Y... For debates and talks: https://iai.tv For articles: https://iai.tv/articles For courses: https://iai.tv/iai-academy/courses