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Is time not perceivable without motion or change?
See The Science of Timekeeping Application Note 1289 - Hewlett Packard.
http://www.allanstime.com/Publications/DWA/Science_Timekeeping/TheScienceOfTimekeeping.pdf
Resonant systems (clocks) are the ...
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Is time not perceivable without motion or change?
In physics, in a world with maximum entropy, there's no way to distinguish which way in time is forwards and which way in time is backwards. Atoms and molecules are in motion, but their motion is ...
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Is time not perceivable without motion or change?
If you are talking about physical versus psychological time, the relation between time, motion, and change comes up again and again. In modern physics, of course, we have v = x/t which rewritten is t =...
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Is time not perceivable without motion or change?
The concept of change presupposes the concept of time because change
is defined by comparing the state at two different points in time.
Because you ponder whether the relation of time and change is a
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Is time not perceivable without motion or change?
Your question doesn't have a meaningful answer, because it pre-supposes something that is physically impossible. In effect, what you are asking is what would be the implications for time if we ignore ...
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Is the speciousness of the specious present specious?
I have not read that whole SEP page for now, but at first glance the paragraph you quoted seems quite questionable to me.
First of all, there is a big "if not, then" in there. It seems in no ...
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Is the speciousness of the specious present specious?
The following - contrary to the guidlines - reflects my own thoughts about experience :
Experience is not just a series of perceived states or events. Experience is a realization of a meaning of ...
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Is the speciousness of the specious present specious?
Continuing the SEP quote shows that we can "perceive a relation between two [successive] events" by using memory.
... a paradox in the notion of perceiving an event as
occurring after ...
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The concept of time - arrow, pattern or both?
According to the Special and also the General Theory of Relativity
time has to be considered in the broader context of spacetime. The
latter is 4-dimensional structure of events. There does not exist ...
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The concept of time - arrow, pattern or both?
Here’s an excerpt of what Robert Lawrence Kuhn has to say about time:
“To many physicists, while we experience time as psychologically real, time is not fundamentally real. At the deepest foundations ...
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The concept of time - arrow, pattern or both?
Time is neither an arrow nor a pattern. According to our current best mainstream theories of physics, time is a dimension in a four-dimensional spacetime. I cannot begin to imagine how you might ...
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What would it mean for time not to be real?
I think your intuition is self-evidently correct- animals must have some experience of time just as they must have some experience of space. So either Kant's claim was incorrect or perhaps he had ...
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What would it mean for time not to be real?
The relationship of time to space has been known since the appearance of Special Relativity. The relativity of simultaneity means that if an observer observes a succession of events then another ...
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Numbers and Time
Your question reminds me of the broader one that is often mentioned on this site, asking why the Universe can be modelled by mathematics at all. I will address point 1) in your list of motivations, as ...
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Numbers and Time
Time is what a clock measures. A clock is a machine that does the same process over and over and moves a pointer from one entry in an ordered set without an upper bound to the next entry in the set ...
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Zeit, can it not exist?
Imagine Mr.T doesn't care about what he eats - french fries, donuts, steak, doesn't matter - any meal is as good as the other. Despite this, he still feels hungry and desires food - it's just that any ...
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Does absolute eternality entail timelessness?
I agree with what is in the comments by Conifold and Kristian Berry. I'll summarize and add my own thoughts as well.
One palace we can look for ideas is Christianity, where eternity plays a large role ...
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Is there an inconsistency in saying that time had a beginning?
Kristian Berry gives a good answer assuming some sort of embedding dimension/manifold.
If we stick with the observable universe, we can think of t=0 not as a point in a pre-existing timeline, but as ...
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Is there an inconsistency in saying that time had a beginning?
The culprit in the appearance of a self-defeating proposition is an ambiguity in the expression "t = 0." When taken as a sort of absolutely free-standing term, "t = 0" still ...
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Are there any philosophical implications to slow light?
It's probably a bit of a stretch but the only thing that comes to mind is the impact on causality. Based on the theory of relativity, cause and effect is limited by the speed of light. When the rate ...
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Are there any philosophical implications to slow light?
Prior to Einstein, there wouldn't have been any reason to see philosophical implications of the speed of light, any more than philosophical implications of the fact that the speed of cars horse ...
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Are there any philosophical implications to slow light?
Of course there are philsophical implications to it, like for any other concept. I don't see why the speed of light in different media should be an exception.
As an example, forms of life (like fishes,...
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