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Raymond Tallis: A "philosopher" who is either ignorant or in bad faith.

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I was listening to the BBC Start The Week podcast a few weeks ago. It was called "Dissecting Death", and was about approaches to death. Halfway through this bloke, introduced as a "philospher", Raymond Tallis came on. I've heard him waffle on other programs before. He just published a 700 page (yes seven hundred page ) book about time and lamentation. The other guests on the program were intelligent informative and interesting: Mark O'Connell talked about transhumanists, Carla Valentine talked about life and death behind mortuary doors, and Laura Yunbridge spoke about late works of artists. But all Tallis could say was: "Physicists have shrunk time to little 't'. So it can be squared or used as a denominator in an equation. Well you'd never do that to an afternoon..." Now why did a "philospher" say such stupid things? I can think of only answers: Answer 1) He is ignorant of how time is still