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Originally Posted by steve 9
Take a stand. Just tell us what you think time is. Is it like matter? Is it like energy? Start somewhere and build your case.
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I'm not sure if anyone disagrees with you about time being a concept. I mean we have just been talking about what sorts of features we attach to "time" in our conception of reality, and whether we can always define (~conceptualize) time in many valid ways to explain our subjective experiences.
But I think there are few communication failures in your conversations with others. I think when people insist time is nevertheless "real", they may be only saying that there must be something in objective reality that makes a concept like "time" valid for interpreting reality... ...without really taking a stance what that might be.
When I read your posts, it only occurs to me that since you have thought about purely conceptual aspects of the definition of "time" so much, you might want to consider what conceptual aspects there is in, say, definition of "matter".
-Anssi
