Further Treatises on Time... (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, March 11, 2011, 20:02 (5005 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Imagine the chaos that would ensue if you told people they couldn't remember yesterday, could not plan for tomorrow, and that there lunch date at noon today was postponed indefinitely because noon does not, in fact, exist, neither does tomorrow or yesterday....
>-Here you miss my point...
 
> I agree, by the way, that time as a 'thing' is non-existent, but it is a useful tool.-And here you get it... what gives?-You're missing some context, but my overall point was that time is only a snapshot of states, not a discretely 'real' thing.

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