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Join The Larger Universe at FUSION | 708 on Saturday, July 25, from 2–4 PM for two exciting presentations and a respectful discussion! The presentations include Unicorn of Time and the Number of Motion with Daniel Jencka and Encounters Through the Artist’s Eye with Kathleen O’Connor.

The Unicorn of Time and the Number of Motion
With Daniel Jencka

The question of time—whether it truly exists, what it is, and how it operates—has occupied thinkers and ordinary people for thousands of years. More than 2,300 years ago, the great Greek philosopher Aristotle confronted this mystery head-on. In doing so, he carefully examined both the theories of earlier thinkers and the common assumptions of everyday life. Much like today, discussions of time in the ancient world were tangled with paradoxes, contradictions, and deep confusion.

Aristotle approached the problem in a characteristic way. He believed that paradoxes did not arise because reality itself was paradoxical, but because human understanding was incomplete or mistaken. Rather than accepting mystery as the end of a question, he sought to untangle the conceptual errors hidden within our thinking about time.

What emerged from his inquiry was a theory both remarkably simple and profoundly radical: time is not a thing in itself, but “the number of motion” in respect to before and after. Though ancient, this idea remains startling in its implications. In recent years, modern philosophers have revisited Aristotle’s account, including Daniel Jencka, whose work explores the enduring power and consequences of this forgotten framework.

What follows is an exploration of this 2,300-year-old solution to the mystery of time—a solution that, if correct, has the potential to overturn many assumptions held not only by everyday people, but also by modern science itself.

FREE

Saturday, July 25th, 2 - 4 pm

FUSION | 708

708 1st St. NW, Downtown ABQ