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Originally Posted by modest
Would everyone agree that:
- The past cannot be changed.
- Anything that is spatially separated from us (at any point in time) we cannot currently (at that point in time) experience. In other words, the only things we currently (at one point or slice of time) experience are the things touching us.
~modest |
The past cannot be changed. I agree. It can't even be directly perceived because it doesn't exist outside of our consciousness.
With respect to #2, the only things we can directly perceive NOW are the things that are affecting our senses now.
I'm not sure I accept the concept of a point in time, unless it is referencing a past or future now and we recognize that these concepts are internal references only, i.e. nothing outside of ourselves corresponds to these things.
Sorry modest if it sounds like I'm being pig headed about this. My problem is that we don't have a way of describing the nowness of now. To me, it's like the edge of the knife without the blade behind it. It has no width.
We timeslice a width that doesn't exist.
And by the way, excellent questions. Excellent trigger points.
