Why the Flow of Time Is an Illusion
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Why the Flow of Time Is an Illusion
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Re: Why the Flow of Time Is an Illusion
#2Time is just a measurement that we haven’t quite nailed down the definition of yet.
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#3The World Science Festival has a slew of episodes on the flow and illusion of time: https://www.youtube.com/user/worldsciencefestival/search?que...
One of the thoughts I've been having recently about "human time" is the effect that the observance of changing seasons and the circle of life over an evolutionary period has had on how humans think about things like time and permanence. Unfortunately I don't have anything particularly insightful to say other than I've been wondering about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#4The word 'illusion' should be removed from every dictionary. It's one completely unspecific, indeterminate and misleading word and most subjects or patterns of discourse in which it appears have the same properties.
The title of this post also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
Just searching for "* is an illusion" returns
- consciousness - choice - spacetime - the world - physical reality - certainty - memories
It makes me feel disgusted.
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#5I live by a couple of (vaguely related) principles:
a) Consciousness is just your brain trying to anticipate the future.
b) Your brain compresses (normalises?) repetition in memories. So even if day to day events happen at normal speed, the years seem to fly by when you reflect on them. If your life seems to be flying-by then maybe you need more novelty.
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#6If you zoom out far enough everything is just your brain tripping balls trying to process electric signals from faulty/limited sensors.
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#7The word 'illusion' should be removed from every dictionary. It's one completely unspecific, indeterminate and misleading word and most subjects or patterns of discourse in which it appears have the same properties. The title of this post also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime Just searching for "* is an illusion" returns - consciousness - choice - spacetime - the world - physical reality - certaint…
The word is used to describe large and unknowable concepts as well as optical tricks?
Its possible for a word to have more than one meaning.
Re: Why the Flow of Time Is an Illusion
#8The word 'illusion' should be removed from every dictionary. It's one completely unspecific, indeterminate and misleading word and most subjects or patterns of discourse in which it appears have the same properties. The title of this post also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime Just searching for "* is an illusion" returns - consciousness - choice - spacetime - the world - physical reality - certaint…
illusion - noun, an instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience.
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#9"Time doesn't flow, we flow."—Michael Crichton
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#10I live by a couple of (vaguely related) principles: a) Consciousness is just your brain trying to anticipate the future. b) Your brain compresses (normalises?) repetition in memories. So even if day to day events happen at normal speed, the years seem to fly by when you reflect on them. If your life seems to be flying-by then maybe you need more novelty.
This is true. You also need to take into account how each day is a smaller and smaller percentage of your life which might be why kids think summer vacation lasts forever but it flys by for parents.