Is it possibal that all things that were to happen have already happend and we are simply perceiving it one moment at a time? Since when you reflect on the past you can remeber years at a time. At the end of time will all that has happend be a mear moment of reflection? What do you think?
2006-11-29 15:09:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Our reality is what we perceive of the physical world with our conscious mind on our physical timeline. Our memories are not our "timeline" perceptions of the physical world, but rather facsimiles of past perceptions of the physical world that our senses have enabled our mind to record and recall. These memories are not "locked" into the timeline of our "real perception" of the physical world. Distinguishing real perception of the physical world from memories is a crucial distinction to define in order to keep our minds from confusing the two. The definition of that distinction is a scientific distinction. If one does not accept this scientific distinction, one is bound to find some degree of confusion in philosophy and perhaps even metaphysics.
2006-11-29 15:22:37 · answer #1 · answered by Piguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny you should phrase you question like that... If you stand 1 meter away from a mirror, and look at your reflection... You are looking at yourself 6 nanoseconds prior to the present you.
We perceive it based on light, cycles of the sun, moon, and Earth.Time is more so based on patterns within out universe, so who knows whether everything has already happened or not. We only have the ability to fully understand the things we can we can choose which direction in which we travel in.
CyberNara
2006-11-29 18:45:58 · answer #2 · answered by Joe K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, I think maybe we don't perceive time as much as we perceive things in time.
Next, your statement is problematic because you said that "things were to happen have already happned" is a concept of time. If somehow you were to detach yourself from the universe and say that everything has already happened you are talking in the past tense. Hence your still "in time". I get the gist of what you're saying, but what I am saying now is that it is impossible to detach yourself from time.
Last, I don't think our ability to remember years at a time means means that the future already exists. I just don't see why it should imply that.
2006-11-29 16:20:50 · answer #3 · answered by ragdefender 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) We perceive time as travelers moving down a river.
2) Every thing that happens is not already planned.
3)The end of time only reflects the view of the non-existent.
2006-11-29 15:18:21 · answer #4 · answered by highlander 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
time...no, i dont think that things that were to happen have already happened and that we are perceiving things a moment at a time. we are travelling this journey of life along with time. time is our friend that it shows the way as we go. what we need. just waht we need. it was with us in the past, reminding us now in the present, and will still be there in the future.and in the end, no, i dont think there is an end to time coz it is eternity. no beginning and no end.
2006-11-29 15:14:19 · answer #5 · answered by snoopy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe we ride on a wave of "now", the conscious part of realities breaking creation. Our past stacks up like a foundation underneath us, yes we can look down and build up. Our context of now is as elusive as where is our soul located in the body/brain? I believe anything is possible, but we must evolve to get there....to bad most people can't leap ahead, but only take baby steps from the known past....into fantastic new horizons. ....In the end my past is nothing more than stored bio-chemical synapses waiting to remind me of those same bio-chemical synapses, the brain actually can't tell the difference from now and then...it just has reference points of dates and relative times. In the same way we can't remember if this or that happened last week or two weeks ago.... We're only "VIEWERS" and "STORES" of information in this fantastic illusion that we create, called reality....to bad to many people think they aren't in control of their reality. PS...read the book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" and the book "illusions" by Richard Bach. then get into quantum physics a bit...then reality will be yours to shape in both time/space/etc.
2006-11-29 15:29:08 · answer #6 · answered by baron_von_sky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does not do time. We are God. The time you speak of is an overly trained, overly busy mind illusion. Do you know that the clocks where invented in order to calculate when trains would arrive and leave stations. Back then, "High noon" in one place was different moment than "High noon" in another so they could not calculate the arrival and departure of trains.
2006-11-29 15:51:01 · answer #7 · answered by Richard15 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Time is a measurement of motion; as such, it is a type of relationship. Time applies only within the universe, when you define a standard - such as the motion of the earth around the sun."
You perceive time through your five senses.
2006-11-30 11:18:12 · answer #8 · answered by kensai 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the end of my days I merely hope to be able to remember the friends I have made, forget the enemies, cherish those whom I have loved, and find my teeth.
onequesti0n
2006-11-29 15:12:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know about the first part of the question but to the second one i don't think that we will reflect on what has happened but when we're gone we will remember the people who were important to us here on earth.
you've been smoking pot haven't you?
2006-11-29 15:21:49 · answer #10 · answered by kori22 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋