Timeline for If all we perceive is the present, what are the proofs to affirm that time exists?
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| May 24 at 7:03 | answer | added | Professor Sushing | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 23 at 19:20 | answer | added | Jay | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 20:12 | vote | accept | Voxywave | ||
| Feb 16, 2021 at 20:06 | answer | added | SpaceDisgrace | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 16, 2021 at 0:35 | comment | added | user50344 | @Voxywave It's not an easy question, and I wasn't expecting any quick or concise answer. I don't have one myself. | |
| Feb 16, 2021 at 0:32 | comment | added | Voxywave | @Servaes I couldn't give a convincing answer to that question, what I can say is that we can project dimensions and know what a deterministic universe would look like, leaving one axis for time and the rest for matter. And if it were a deterministic universe where we assume that time is the fourth dimension then, it would still have a problem, since if it were continuous then it would be dense and impossible to perceive (If it is possible to define this word). This is the only logical answer or at least that sounds logical to me, that I can give | |
| Feb 16, 2021 at 0:31 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | Among other things, we have to account for deja vu, which seems in my opinion to be a fluctuation in our temporal perception when the now is more than a point but is the whole moment of deja vu spanning some sort of nonpunctiform structure. (Just my opinion, not consensus...) | |
| Feb 16, 2021 at 0:12 | comment | added | user50344 | That still leaves the question; what does it mean for something to exist? How do you distinguish between things that exist and things that don't? Or how could you determine whether something exists or not? That is, what tools do you have at your disposal for establishing 'existence'? | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 23:45 | comment | added | Voxywave | @Servaes I try to approach the question from a materialistic perspective, so my assumption of existence is: real objects exist independent of our perception. Regarding the assumptions, I do not have much knowledge of all the positions, I simply assumed the assumptions that seemed most intuitive to me | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 23:42 | comment | added | Voxywave | @Kristian Berry And what is the common consensus of how we perceive time? | |
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| Feb 15, 2021 at 19:26 | comment | added | Conifold | We do not perceive time spatially, let alone as a sequence of dots or frames. That's just a way of tricking vision when making videos. An object changing position, even instantaneously, also has little to do with how time itself behaves or is perceived. We can have continuous time with instantaneously moving objects. For phenomenology of time see SEP, Temporal Consciousness. | |
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| Feb 15, 2021 at 15:41 | comment | added | user50344 | Also, you seem to impose a lot of structure on the nature of time and our perception of it (continuous vs. discrete, intersubjective, and more), as well as its relation to our perception of change. One of your tangential questions seems to be "What does stuff do inbetween the frames that we see?". Ignoring the strong assumptions in this question, the top answer to your previous post also sheds a lot of light on this question. | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 15:35 | comment | added | user50344 | As with your previous question; what do you mean by 'existing'? The mere fact that we can discuss it gives it some ontological status. Clearly it exists in our minds. If you have some other meaning of 'existing' in mind, e.g. in some objective external reality, please clarify what it means for something to 'exist' in this sense. | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 14:59 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | And no proof at all... At most: evidence. | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 14:25 | answer | added | J Kusin | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 13:39 | answer | added | Daron | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 13:28 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | What if our temporal perception isn't punctiform in the first place? | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 12:52 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | We have lots of evidence about past event: historical records, remembrances,... And the simple "model" of time is a linear succession of events. | |
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