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Leila Devachi

Lila Davachi (billed as "Leila Devachi") is a cognitive neuroscientist and Professor of Psychology at Columbia University who studies how memories are encoded, consolidated, and retrieved.

Sep 19, 2026

32:34
dedicated to time perception, right? So I was wondering, so how then do we make sense of the sense of time passing?
32:43
Well, I think, so in the human brain, which is my purview, I'm interested in human experience, there's many functions of the brain.
32:54
One of the most important ones that we're consciously aware of is giving the world meaning.
33:00
And so time is not that important necessarily.
33:04
It depends how you define time.
33:06
But actual time passing, duration, seconds, is just not going to affect meaning in some ways.
33:15
That said, there are some parts of the brain that do a really good job at what I call timing.

53 MINS LATER

86:20
It's very akin to Heraclitus, so as you can see, that's kind of like The idea of flux and the nature process is very interesting for thinking about the tension of that with something that, say, is more state-based, the way that we portray evolution of states in, say, physics.

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