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B: Time is an illusion.
A: Jesus, Brad. You startled me. I didn’t even realize you were at this coffee shop.
B: Hi. Can I sit with you? Do you want to talk philosophy?
A: Yeah, sure. Sit down.
B: Time is an illusion.
A: What do you mean?
B: I mean that time is just a human construct. We made it up.
A: Aren’t human constructs real?
B: How so?
A: Consider money. That’s a human construct, but it’s still real in a way.
B: No, that’s not what I mean. Time is different than that.
A: Okay, explain.
B: Well, everyone knows that money is sort of an agreed-upon social construct. Like driving on the right side of the road in the U.S. Or like the rules of basketball.
A: Or like how you’re supposed to simultaneously light the two consent candles right before you have sex with your partner?
B: Whoa, what?
A: You didn’t know?
B: Shit, no.
A: Wow, Brad.
B: My point is, time is different than money or driving. Time isn’t real in the way we commonly think of it. Time is a purely useful…
