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One universal time for everything is definitely an illusion, even guys who wrote Upanishads knew that. Each process has its own properties, to put it different
by dschiptsov 13y ago
One universal time for everything is definitely an illusion, even guys who wrote Upanishads knew that.
Each process has its own properties, to put it differently, one-time-for-it-all is just a concept of the mind and doesn't exist outside our head.
- wrongc0ntinent 13y ago"Knew" is a big stretch there.
- richardjordan 13y agoAgreed. Taking "ancient wisdom" too seriously and seeing it through a modern scientific lens is pretty much always too big-a-stretch to make. Plus there's a difference between talking about psychological perception of time, as most religious texts do, and time as a measure of the evolution of physical systems in the scientific sense. Not the same thing.
- wrongc0ntinent 13y agoThanks, pretty much what I meant.
- richardjordan 13y agogotta love agreement :-)
- dschiptsov 13y agoHow a time, that could be measured as a property of one physical process, say, radioactive decay is related to the time of another independent physical process, such as growth/maturation of a biological "system" called child?) Or rotation of a Moon around the Earth? There is no relation, except those based on mental concepts. To say that all these times are one and the same universal time is to create yet another mental concept.