Welcome back to Plus+! This week we dig into the machinery behind our sense of time, from the biological clocks ticking throughout the body to the strange way the brain stitches separate moments into something resembling a continuous present. Along the way, Burdick gets into circadian experiments, neurological cases, sensory illusions, and the unsettling possibility that the “now” we experience is something the brain is constantly constructing after the fact.
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