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Can you prove that time exists as an extant versus something that is mechanistic that tracks the interval of distance with a counter (derivative)?
by pyinstallwoes 5y ago
Can you prove that time exists as an extant versus something that is mechanistic that tracks the interval of distance with a counter (derivative)?
- pyinstallwoes 5y ago* I am continuing the support of the above statement from a different example. I apologize if I came off as confrontational. To note: I think there is an ontological problem in the overall zeitgeist of today within the realm of being able to and not be able to distinguish between ideas that are based in physical reality vs ideas based in mental reality.
- simonblack 5y agoIt's important to think of 'time' in two separate ways, what it does physically - it passes steadily; and the numbers attached to 'this instant' in time. 'This instant' has a physical reality, but what we call it is an entirely arbitrary man-made construct. That man-made construct is normally a count of some arbitrary period of time since some arbitrary starting point in the past. A good example of this is simply the number of the current year: it's 2022 in one system, 1443 in another system, 5782 in a third, and who knows what number in at least a dozen others, past and current, that I can think of off the top of my head. "Time is Nature's way of preventing everything happening at once." - unnamed comedian.