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What is time?
A philosophical exploration into the known unkno
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Introduce yourself!
Guess which statement is true about the person today.
We can get to know each other and begin to think abouttime! We change through time. The past self for whichthose two statements were true… does this person stillexist?
Variation of truths and " lie#
All three statements are true
about yourself$ howe%er are
no longer true$ only " is still
true.
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&uestions
'or time to exist$ does time re(uiree%ents?
)o you think that only things inthe present exist$ or do you thinkthings in the past and future also
exist?
)o things in past$ present$ and future exist in di*erent
ways? +an we interact with the past$ present$ and
future? Are these interactions the same?
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,he -hape of ,ime
,ime is a line. A is thepresent. efore A is
the past$ after A isthe future.
But time might notbe a line. Howwould the worldwork, if time took
on these other
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uddhism /0122 + 3 now4
5,he conse(uence preexists in the cause$ the future in tpresent6 We can$ by examining the present$ predict witcertainty what will happen in the future$ for the future ishidden present. 'or this reason temporality becomes a millusion.# /"74 )a%id 8. 9alupahana
3,ime doesn:t actually exist. ;ur faulty mental faculties cexperience of time. In reality e%erything$ past present fuat once.
3ecause e%erything exists at once$ we can dig through tto
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uddhism /continued4,ime assumes the position of >aara$ the personi
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What would it be like to ha%eno self?
Co duality 33 what would it belike to not see yourself
separate from the 5other:?
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D.) ;uspensky /"7E73"F1E4
ussian mathematician who contributed topsychology$ religion$ and philosophy
,ime is actually a spatial dimension$ but we cannotsee it as space
Why? Chickens. eings with more complicated
brains than ours might see us like chickens.
What do you think it means for time is be actuallyspace?
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We know the world consists of solids$ but we see and tosurfaces. We ne%er see and touch a solid. ,he solid33thisconcept $ composed of a series of perceptions$ the result reasoning and experience.#
/Tertium Org
3We know sobecause we can memories of eacobect and piecetogether into a m
understanding o
;uspensky /continued4
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;uspensky /continued4
3;ther animals might not ha%e this ability of memory. A cat sworld in 3). A slug sees the world in "3).
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How would walking around a disk appear to a
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;uspensky /continued4
Animals sense the third dimension as something transiwe sense time# /Tertium Organum "2H4
We experience H3dimensional space but are unable to pitogether in a way to see that time is a spatial dimension
What does it mean if time is a spatial dimension?>oments of di*erent epochs$ di%ided by great inter%alsexist simultaneously$ and may touch one another#
/Tertium Organum 14
)oes this sound like
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Albert instein /"7EF3"F4
,heory of General elati%ityB ,ime is a spatial dimension J Gwarped space3time
What does this mean? If you li%e in
house on the
you will age
your neighbo
about "2 nan
one year$L Ig
(uantum phy
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&uantum >echanics /0"F22 3 now4
&uantum theory has been formulated based on asymmetric
that reKect the fact that we can know the past and can only future. But the concept of probability is independent ofrom a physics perspecti%e it makes sense to try to formtheory in fundamentally symmetric terms#
3;gnyan ;reshko%$ (uantum phy
)o you think only past e%ents cafuture e%ents?
=ow would you think of your lifeif the future can cause the presepast?
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Implications
If time is actually space6and future e%ents causewhat is happening now6
)oes it mean e%erything
had already happened?
)o we ha%e free will?
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'urther )iscussion
pistemologyB the study of knowledgeM is it possible
to know anything for sure?
;uspensky$ instein$ and the uddha were humansafter all.
&uantum mechanics is based on theories$ made by
humans$ and experimental results$ obser%ed byhumans.
=umans are Kawed.
If we cannot believe in anything,
what should we do?
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If you belie%e time is a spatial dimen
Why is there so much su*ering and inustice inherent to the
+an God
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