Might the human mind be the only place in the universe where time travel is allowed?

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Today, we're talking about the time machine of the mind.

Ooh, what does that mean?

Well, let's go to my co-host here, Gary, Gary Riley.

How you doing, man?

I'm good, Neil. We're all back in our man caves remotely, so it's a bit strange from being in your office again. I miss my office. Chuck, Chuck, actor, comedian? Yes, I'm actually not here, guys. I'm in the future. You're in the future, the time machine of my mind. I'm in the time machine of my mind,

talking to you from there. Well, you and your producers cooked up this episode and, you know,

it needs good ingredients to do the right thing for it. So tell me, tell me your thinking.

All right. Let's put it this way, shall we? Is time an illusion? All right, hold on to that thought for a moment. And from moment to moment,

we transport ourselves backwards and forwards in time, in our own brains, remembering the

past, projecting to the future. But how does that all work? In today's episode, we are going

to wrap our heads around time. Well, we're going to try to wrap our heads around time.

And time as we know it in physics

and how we experience it in our own brains.

How do we tell time?

Why do we tell time?

And finally, is time travel possible, but only in our minds.

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