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 mr_kite
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 “Time” among living things on planet earth 
#7301788 - 08/16/07 04:34 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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The human/animal observation of time puzzles me. It is clear that all adequately “intelligent” life-forms of our planet seem to make sense of our universe through past, present and future, through our/their capacity for “memory” and ability to observe the “present” and consider the possible/“inevitable” “future“. However I often have a sense that time is our own construct and - (this is difficult/impossible to articulate) - the present is in a way the be-all and end-all; there is a connecting thread and we exist on the same plane as those we perceive to have “died”, those that “existed” “long-ago”, and those who will come “in the future”; ie: “our ancestors and offspring are all connected to us through the present, we exist on the same plane of existence and the fact we perceive them not to be here at the same “time” as us, ie the fact that we perceive time at all, is merely due to/through our limited ability to comprehend the universe/reality”.
Anyone have a clue what Im on about?
In that previous paragraph I "humanised" this concept by relating it to the human race, that is, speaking of "ancestors and descendents". Is what Im getting at related to theories of alternate universes? The idea that time is merely our (inaccuarte/incorrect) way of observing reality, where in fact this "dimension" is simply beyond human ken?
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 Icelander
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Re: “Time” among living things on planet earth [Re: mr_kite]
#7301949 - 08/16/07 05:28 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Anyone have a clue what Im on about?
Sure, Ever read the Titans of Venus?
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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backfromthedead
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Re: “Time” among living things on planet earth [Re: mr_kite]
#7301969 - 08/16/07 05:39 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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I often have felt the same.
But, I also feel that time is inherent.
That it truly is an experience of duration and not illusion.
I agree that memory plays the central role in experiencing a linear progression of reality/time.
I think the only way to connect the past, present, future is to fold it up like a rejection letter.
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