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Your brain and the Ouroboros of time

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Marc Arginteanu
Jan 30, 2023
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Time as Ouroboros: You’ve almost certainly seen an image of a serpent eating its own tail. It's a symbol of infinite time, a unification of beginning and end. The Ouroboros relates to how a part of our brain experiences the passage of time: The circadian rhythm. 

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