Do beginnings belong to the world, or to a description of experience?
The familiar alternatives are that the universe had a beginning or that it always existed. Both arise within a human experience of before and after.
The recorded conversation considers another possibility: the sense of a world with a definite history may be inseparable from the way experience is organized. This is not an alternative scientific explanation of the Big Bang.
The discussion examines the assumptions inside a question instead of offering a new cosmological theory. Scientific investigation of observable events and philosophical investigation of experience need not be confused.
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