29 April

Time doesn’t pass in the way that we think it does. The past is always just here, but it’s in potential form rather than actual form. We think things either exist, or they don’t. Something or nothing. But there’s no such thing as nothing, you can’t even imagine nothing. Watch this video by an electronics expert who’s trying to fix a very old recording machine that uses wire. The details of the electronics aren’t that interesting to most people, but what hopefully should jump out at you is how the voices of people now long dead are still ’in’ that wife and in the electronics. Potentially. There’s nothing about the electronics or the wire that resembles a human being in any way at all, but that voice when it suddenly appears is as real as if the person was still there in the room. How he manages to extract the voice from multiple pieces of the old machine too, it’s spooky.