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Is repair a form of creation? When can the new and the old coexist? Is the idea of \u2018new\u2019 itself, human and, new? Is this understanding always subject/context dependent? Why don\u2019t we sometimes notice the new? What\u2019s new for the deer in the savannah? Is memory history? When is the old also obsolete? Do events have both a past and a future? How is the past unlike an object? Did capitalism \u2018create\u2019 time? Did modernity change both the object and the subject? How do certain societies break away from the past more easily? How can the erased be recovered? Does language often carry traces of the past? When are myths essential? Why was the old found to be necessary for the Meiji Restoration? Is Vi\u015bhw\xe1karma Brahm\u0101? Why do Nations want to be timeless? Is the grammar of the evolutionary past neuro-anatomically encoded in us? Similarly, are some vestiges of older social forms always present in the present? What cannot be repaired? Do we really need a \u2018new\u2019 future? Is old/new an either/or choice? Must we think of new and old as different ways of being? How might one find (realistic) choices to radically new problems? &, will we disappear again? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using concepts from cognitive sciences (Dr. Rajesh Kasturirangan, ClimateX, Boston), history & philosophy (Dr. Viren Murthy, UW-Madison, Madison), & anthropology (Dr. Abhijeet Paul, UC Berkeley, Berkeley). Listen in...