Miguel: Slow It Down (Time Perception with Jimena Canales)

About this episode

Miguel and Jimena Canales discuss the complexities of time perception through music and personal experiences.

Grammy-winning artist Miguel joins science historian Jimena Canales for a live taping centered on his song “Nearsight [SID]” from CAOS. What begins as a conversation about a lyric — “slow it down for me” — opens into a wide-ranging exploration of time itself: how it feels to speed up as we age, how music can stretch or compress our experience of the present, and why certain moments seem impossible to hold onto. Drawing on her work on Einstein and Bergson's philosophy of time, Canales helps unpack the tension between measurable, physical time and lived, emotional time — while Miguel reflects on fatherhood, memory, and the urgency behind wanting to slow a fleeting moment. Taped live at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 14, 2026.

People in this episode

Guests: Miguel, Jimena Canales

Topics covered

• time perception
• music and time
• fatherhood
• memory
• philosophy of time

Keywords

• time perception
• music
• philosophy
• fatherhood
• memory
• live taping
• MIT Museum

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MIT Museum

Books & works: Nearsight [SID], CAOS

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