Meta Treks: A Star Trek Philosophy Podcast

"Cause and Effect" and the Metaphysics of Time.   In this 33rd episode of Meta Treks, "All Threes," hosts Zachary Fruhling and Mike Morrison use the TNG episode "Cause and Effect" as the starting point for a discussion on the physics and the metaphysics of time. Zachary and Mike consider the core philosophical questions about the nature of time, such as ontology (whether the past and the future really exist), duration (why time moves at the rate it does), movement (whether there is a flow of time or whether events are fixed in time), linear time versus branching time, subjective time versus objective time, reconciling relativistic physics of time with quantum physics of time, and whether time is "out there" or imposed on reality by the mind.   Chapters  Welcome to Episode 33 (00:01:20)  Initial Thoughts on "Cause and Effect" (00:04:39)  Spacetime - Time is Malleable (00:14:32)  The Physics of Time and the Metaphysics of Time (00:16:06)  Four Dimensionalism - Do the Present and Future Exist? (00:24:42)  Circ