Summary of Dean Buonomano's Your Brain Is a Time Machine

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#1 The five most common nouns in the English language are time, money, love, death, and work. We speak of saving time, killing time, serving time, keeping time, not having time, tracking time, bedtime, timeouts, buying time, good times, and time travel.

#2 Time is the most common noun, but there is no consensus on how to define it. We will explore questions of time and try to answer them. But we must first acknowledge that our ability to understand time is constrained by the nature of the organ asking the questions.

#3 Time is more complicated than space. We can navigate through space, and animals can see, hear, and touch their surroundings in space. But we cannot navigate through time, and we cannot see, hear, or touch time itself.

#4 Time is more complicated than space for scientists as well. Fields of science, like humans, go through developmental stages. And in many fields, one signature of this maturation process is the progressive embrace of time.

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