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Originally Posted by modest
Oh, I see. I thought for sure you were wanting to discuss the role of philosophy in science, humm.
Ok though, very good. Time is "consistency of change". Let's go with this. What do you mean by change? Can we define it?
~modest
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Actually, I said 'constancy'. That does have a connotation of time in it somewhere.
I'm not sure we can define it and that's the problem. It doesn't break down into component parts. Our only means so far is to pick one change that seems pretty fundamental and use it as a standard. And maybe that's the best we'll ever be able to do.
Another problem is that if time is thought of as having an essence outside of our consciousness, people start seeing it as something that can be traveled through, as in a time machine. At that point any connotation of esoteric disappears.
When we consider 'constancy of change' we assume a cause for that change. And that's the reason I keep coming back to this point. Something is causing change to happen and the universe is the effect of that.
