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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.
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Sep 19, 2026
It’s About TIME
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32:34Jerry HarwitzHOST
dedicated to time perception, right? So I was wondering, so how then do we make sense of the sense of time passing?
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32:43Leila DevachiGUEST
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.
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32:54Leila DevachiGUEST
One of the most important ones that we're consciously aware of is giving the world meaning.
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33:06Leila DevachiGUEST
But actual time passing, duration, seconds, is just not going to affect meaning in some ways.
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33:15Leila DevachiGUEST
That said, there are some parts of the brain that do a really good job at what I call timing.
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Maria BalcellsGUEST
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.