#28 Skipping Through Life

Meaningless Problems

Faced with the prospect of making half his workforce redundant, Mr Pomeroy is offered the chance to skip the experience by travelling twelve hours into his own future. He accepts the offer and, twelve hours later, finds he still has all the memories of having experienced the day. So how is ‘time skipping’ any different from our normal experience of life?

Something to consider when reading/listening:

How do you know your past isn’t simply a series of implanted memories? And would it make any difference if it were?

Philosophy - Time - Memory

Skipping Through Life is an original short story by Doe Wilmann

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You might enjoy this episode if you like:

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman

A History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters by Julian Barnes

Time

Skipping

Fancy ties

Fiction that makes you think

Philosophical fiction

Speculative fiction

Contemplating the meaning of life

Any form of philosophical enquiry

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Credits:

Thanks to Katie Empett and Ross Hindle for reading early versions of this episode and providing notes.

Artwork by Katie Empett

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