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Originally Posted by lindagarrette
I understand, mainly from studying theoretical physics and quantum theory, that time isnot a perception, it is a measure of sequences of events in the universe. It has existed ever since the BB (and possibly before if you believe SS theory). What doesn't exist, is the present. There is no moment in time. And, in QM, time doesn't enter the equations. Right?
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I agree with the no present part as far as time is concerned, but the idea we are discussing is that since a person is always percieving the sequence of events in the universe it is a perception weather we try and define it to be or not. Practically it simply IS a percieved sequence of events.
And to simplify the arguments we have been having, an example of why this matters as opposed to say how global skepticism seems to be of little consequence, is because if something were to alter the order in which we percieved events our idea of time would not model the sequence of events taking place in the universe. But most importantly, we might never know the difference because as previously stated our idea of time practically is dependent on the order we percieve events. This has nothing to do with the world not being real, the example of the world not being real is just to prove that we don't have any 1st person connection to external systems on which time can be based on.
If you want to have a belief set where you define time is dependent on external sequences of events, you can of course. However you have absolutely no evidence to work with in that case as to what this time would be. You could try and rig some system which gives a signal to you when something occurs in some other system. But you are still percieving the signal, and your organization of this system is still dependent on your perception of how events are typically ordered.
