Are we living in the past?

Question

If it takes time for our brains to process information..( light, touch, smell, ect..) then isn't what we think the present is.. actually off by 750 milliseconds(guesstimate) from real time?

by "real time" i mean the instant an event occurs as opposed to the time it takes for our brains to realize it.

Answer 1

We are always living in present. The present, turns into past. and again you are in the present.

Even real time is the present, once your brain digested it, it has already past.

When you say yesterday I went shopping, you are referring to the past, but you are not living it. When you say I am going shopping later, or tomorrow, you are not living it either, you are just referring to it.

Answer 2

I believe we repeat the past over and over again because our brains cannot break the boundaries of generational dynamics.
For example, there was Hitler and WW2.
Most of the countries attacked by the fascist parties have now become fascists themselves.
Russia, England, America who went in, the people of the Jewish religion...
The pedulum swings.
Its almost like trying to psychologically trying to forgive an event in time by becoming it to understand it, then let it go. But then who it impacts usually then goes through the same thing, creating another fascist regiem.
What does generation dynamics have to do with time?
Real time doesn't exist in my opinion.
Look at the universe and how big it is, then look at an ant hill on planet earth. All the creatures and micro, and macrostructures and cosums all run on different senses.
Time doesn't tell them when to eat or sleep or procreate, they know already.
Clocks are a man made device that just messed everything up.
They were derived from the compass because it took longer to go from east to west by sea travel and they didn't want to get lost.
Time is dumb. It doesn't matter.
Besides what we percive as reality is as individual as a finger print.
You could look at the clock and feel time is moving slowly, I on the other hand could look at the clock and feel that the time is passing quickly.
No one sees the demension in front of them the same because the brains wireing is differing through experiences that wire the brain into a pattern of behavior.

Don't worry that you are off by 750 milliseconds...just hope that you get the message.

Answer 3

The past, the present and the future are just concepts that exist in your mind. There is no such thing as "real time", that's a notion invented by humans because we are only capable of perceiving passages of time that run in one direction. But that's all it is, a perception; time is simply another dimension like length, physics demonstrates there is no reality to the idea that it can only go "one way".

Answer 4

we will be living in the past

Answer 5

i never thought of that, but i guess ur "theory" is right. thats pretty cool

Answer 6

U have a solution??

Answer 7

if you say so

Answer 8

not at all