Further Treatises on Time... (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, March 18, 2011, 22:44 (4998 days ago) @ dhw

Dhw and I are like two circling and hungry cats, stalking around the mouse of time. Each is convinced of his own notions of the mouse, and each is equally convinced that they, indeed are the one who will eat the mouse. -I have to say that I think we should agree to regroup and come back to this later. In considering your words here and breaking them apart, this the only way I can make time 'real.'-Time is experience. -My position on this isn't one of conviction it is one of observation. Only 'now' exists because it is only 'now' when any action can be made. Everything you have presented to me is simply not convincing; a great deal of this is because the definition of time I'm using is the one used in physics. If you accept that a second is man made, it makes no sense to me that the experience is any less man made than the second. It's just as arbitrary and changeable. -You have a good case that time can be looked at as an accumulation of events but in the quantum world this definition hits a snag because there is no event without an observer. So either quantum physics is wrong, or your definition is. Frankly, I'll side with physics. -Between observations, you claim we have *something* between them. And that this is what you're calling time. What is this something? You've reinvented the second without calling it the second. At least with where I'm at right now, if you can't produce evidence of this 'something,' than why should I believe it exists, that it isn't just my mind? (Wow... this sounds eerily familiar...) -I sense you are very tired of me. But the 'common sense' level tends to frustrate me because I obsess over corner cases—although quantum mechanics is hardly a corner case. In my case I need to try and regroup and try to find a different way to explain myself.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"