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The self-declared Independent State of Trolheim does not recognize GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Jay Griffiths argues that the question of what time it is in inextricably bound up with issues of power and politics. And we'll hear a piece from producer Aaron Ximm on the experience of listening to Beethoven's 9th Symphony for 24 hours straight- but only hearing it once.
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- "Sweet Air" David Lang - Child - Cantaloupe Music
- "The End of The Day" David Shire - From the film The Conversation
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The most important question NOT asked on your time segment: if all moments perpetually exist and choice is not what we thought it was, and maybe doesn't exist, then all our thoughts are NOT the product of thoughtful deliberation, but are determined by physical forces we don't control. So this theory itself cannot gain credibility because it is no longer the result of scientific reason, but only from random molecular collisions in the brain of show's guest! (Why trust a saying from a so-called scientist, if his theory didn't come from his choosing to follow the logical ramifications of an investigation, but is only the random but unavoidable accidents within his cerebrum?) Nor can any intelligence exist, or science itself. However if the theory of perpetual NOW is not true, then we can trust our thoughts and theories because they can be the result of logical choices, reasoned inquiry.
It appears that determinism saws off the limb it sits upon, by saying our thoughts are determined by no "intelligent design", and then asking us to believe those thoughts as if they "are true". But determined thoughts can not gain credence if they are never the result of freely choosing to follow the logical outcomes of a chain of evidence but are only as meaningful as random ricocheting of molecules in a brain that believes in illusions like "thought" and "consciousness". This is more important that wanting to believe I chose vanilla over chocolate!
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