Where does it reside? Or, like old soldiers and farts...does it just fade away?
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2007-04-29 01:23:03 · 5 answers · asked by Sincere1 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
I love the question. If the past does not exist, when did it disappear.
Everything we sense is the recent past. In the time that it takes for our sense organs and nerves relay the information about the world to our minds, time has elapsed and what we felt is the past.
If you look at wave forms, the past affects the future. Therefore, it still exists. If it failed to exist, it could not affect the future.
2007-04-29 01:35:42 · answer #1 · answered by a simple man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Another to way look at it is, does the present exist? The future hasn't happened and the past is fading memories.
Even as I write this, every letter I have typed is in the past.
In my view, there is no present.
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2007-04-29 02:14:41 · answer #2 · answered by Robert L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It resides in all of us. Every step in our lives are influenced by the past. A simple proof to this would be to ask a person that smoked 3 packs a day in the past and now suffers in the present, making the past be alive and well in the affect of punishing people for bad decisions in the past. If every person thought of every decision they made in the past and weighed the outcome of their decisions, life would become simple for them in the future.
2007-04-29 02:03:07 · answer #3 · answered by james y 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It exists only in our memories, and yep, a lot of it just fades away.
2007-04-29 11:57:49 · answer #4 · answered by gatorbait 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only in memory. it is only the moment exists.
2007-04-29 01:31:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋