Has it been possible to grasp the meaning of the present time? — Number2018
Apocryphal has it that there are a group of First Nations folk in Australia who don't see time as a line, but as walking backwards.
You can see where you have been, but not where you are going.
I kinda like that. — Banno
as it been possible to grasp the meaning of the present time? — Number2018
Apocryphal has it that there are a group of First Nations folk in Australia who don't see time as a line, but as walking backwards.
You can see where you have been, but not where you are going.
I kinda like that. — Banno
something has to go undefied. Why not time? What is it you don’t know about time? — Banno
I agree with you. Since we cannot predict and foresee our future, we are inclined to eliminate it, to substitute it for familiar images and identifications from the past. As a result,the cyclic model of time has been reproduced over and over again.we're actually facing the future, and going forward. That we seem to be facing the past and walking backward into the future, is really a matter of walking forward, but facing a giant mirror showing only what's behind. So we're really going forward, while looking at a giant rear view mirror. — Metaphysician Undercover
Probably, for the Hopi Indians experience of time and its language forms had been inseparablethe Hopi indians have three verb tenses: one for the present, one for recent events for which sense data still exists, and one for everything else, including hopes, promises, the far past, the future, and emotions. As a consequence, Hopi indians have trouble understanding clocks — ernestm
When one tries to define time, one applies various logical and language recourses.I'm curious as to why time is not so easy to define. Perhaps the right word is ''impossible''. — TheMadFool
I agree with you. Since we cannot predict and foresee our future, we are inclined to eliminate it, to substitute it for familiar images and identifications from the past. As a result,the cyclic model of time has been reproduced over and over again. — Number2018
As you wrote in your previous post:What I'm thinking of, is more of a linear model of time — Metaphysician Undercover
Doesn’t it mean that we project our past into our future?So we're actually facing the future, and going forward. That we seem to be facing the past and walking backward into the future, is really a matter of walking forward, but facing a giant mirror showing only what's behind. — Metaphysician Undercover
I agree with you, a linear model does not reflect our subjective experience of time.we end up with a linear model of time which extends from past through future, with the present being a point somewhere on this line, without accounting for the fact that the future is substantially different from the past, and such a continuity is a misrepresentation. — Metaphysician Undercover
There are non-linear contemporary philosophies of timeThe problem being that instead of recognizing that the past begins at the present, and that the future is fundamentally different from the past, we draw a line — Metaphysician Undercover
I do not know what eternity is. Could you explain it to me?The past is pretty clear -- from now back to eternity, and so is the future--from here forward to eternity. — Bitter Crank
I agree with you. For me, my present is a whole, conscious experience, it can last from a few seconds to a few hours. I think, that my life is given to me through my "presents".What is unclear is the present -- at least to some people. I don't know how long your present is. Some would say it's measurable in nanoseconds. Practically (every day usage) "now", "the present", "currently", and so on can be fairly long — Bitter Crank
There are too many answers.How long is the "political present"? — Bitter Crank
And, by doing so, subjectively, we reproduce our past and a cyclic model of time. — Number2018
There are non-linear contemporary philosophies of time — Number2018
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