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Philosophers of time generally debate whether time is a flowing, fleeting idea, or it is a fixed, static, omnipresent aspect of physical space. Despite the contentiousness, almost all of them agree that time has an arrow, and that the arrow points in a forward direction. C Theorists upend this concept, claiming that time has no flow or direction at all. They propose that time can move in any direction. On this episode we explore what time is and how our objective and subjective experiences of time may not be so straightforward. Twitter: grand_theoriesInstagram: grandtheoriesFacebook: grandtheoriesMusic (in order of appearance):1. Benjamin Banger - "Bobby Drake" (Creative Commons 4.0)Soundcloud:@benjamin-bangerInstagram: @benjaminbanger2. Chris Zabriskie - "Another Version of You" (Creative Commons 4.0)Soundcloud: @chriszabriskie3. Chuki Beats - "DMT" Link to channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/CHUKImusic4. Daniel Birch - "Deep in Peace" (Creative Commons 4.0 NonCommercial)5. Chuki Beats - "Grind" Link to channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/CHUKImusic6. Chris Zabriskie - "Land on The Golden Gate" (Creative Commons 4.0)Soundcloud: @chriszabriskie7. Pipe Choir - "Exit Exit" (Creative Commons 4.0)Soundcloud: @pipe-choir-28. смерть в летнюю полночь - "когда же это было, Чайка" (Creative Commons 4.0)9. Daniel Birch - "Set Adrift" (Creative Commons 4.0 NonCommercial)Works cited: 1. Barbour, J., Koslowski, T. and Mercati, F. (2014). Identification of a gravitational arrow of time. Physical Review Letters. 113.2. Baron, S. et al. (2015). Temporal experience, temporal passage and the cognitive sciences. Philosophy Compass. 10(8). 560-571.3. Boroditsky, L., Fuhrman, O. and McCormick, K. (2010). Do English and Mandarin speakers think about time differently? Cognition. 118. 123-129. 4. Healy, K. et al. (2013). Metabolic rate and body size are linked with perception of temporal information. Animal Behaviour. 86(4). 685-696.5. Farr, M. (2018). Causation and time reversal. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. axx025.6. Farr, M. (2019). The C theory of time. Unpublished manuscript.7. Farr, M. (2019). Explaining temporal qualia. Accepted for publication in: European Journal for Philosophy of Science. 8. Kant, I. (2008) [1781]. Critique of pure reason. (M. Weigelt and M. Muller, Trans.). London: Penguin Classics.9. Kim, Y. et al. (2000). A delayed choice quantum eraser. Physical Review Letters. 84(1). 10. Mctaggart, J. (1908). The unreality of time. Mind. 17. 457-473.11. Nomura, N. et al. (2019). How does time flow in living systems? retrocausal scaffolding and e-series time. Biosemiotics. 12(2). 267-287.12. Núñez, R. and Sweetser, E. (2006). With the future behind them: convergent evidence from the Aymara language and gesture in the crosslinguistic comparison of spatial construals of time. Cognitive Science. 30(3). 401-450.13. Núñez, R. et al. (2012). Contours of time: topographic construals of past, present and future in the Yupno valley of Papua New Guinea. Cognition. 124(1). 25-35.14. [PBS Space Time]. (2016). How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios [video file]. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ORLN_KwAgs&t=