what is Time?

[DeeMenTalist]

I like a statement of Helena Blavatsky in the Secret Doctrine about time. It was something like - "Time is an illusion created by successive alternations of our states of consciousness during our itinerancy in Eternity".

 

[darklordsson]

Time is like....
Whoa.....
You know?
.....
Far out

haha:thumb_up: :d

 

[Al Dimentiz]

I think we got social time that allow us to function in society, social time is the reason we own watches, it's the one that dictates at what time we got to go to work, etc, etc.

And we got psychological time that is relative to the observer "an illusion". Because past is just a memory and future is imagination.

To me the only moment that is truly ours is the NOW.

Peace & Love

 

[Poads]

Time is an artificial creation by man. There is no beginning and there is no end. There is no escape. Time is ultimately meaningless.

 

[Adjhart]

So let's imagine time is an illusion; a human construct for the way to categorize events we perceive or experience.

If there's no time then that could mean that all experiences and events are happening simultaneously. Perhaps this is the case, and our construct of time is simply the linear form in which our brain 'files' the experiences.

We as humans cannot experience the past, nor the future. The present is the only thing we can experience. So how do we know that the past or future even exist? We don't. We only imagine they do. Right?

 

[olympus mon]

time = distance/rate

so.. one could say (only partially inaccurately) that time is the measurement of dynamism (physical dynamism, not philosophical)

I agree. My understanding of time is, for lack of better words, a sort of bi-product of moving through dimensional space.

From my understanding In a static universe time wouldn't exist because nothing is moving through space. When the first particle moved from point A to point B in space there also had to exist time.
Trippy.

 

[DeeMenTalist]

...When the first particle moved from point A to point B in space there also had to exist time.
Trippy.

This is a tricky moment. When there is only one particle how it can "know" where is that point B and that it stay in point A? And how it can create time/movement if that one particle stay still in the same "place"? There is must be at least two particles to create visible movements and distance or space if you will relatively to each other. If we`ll go from this micro level to to the macro level of universe there is again that question - where it stay and move relatively to what? At least these questions rises in my head if we consider time as distance/rate. Crazy stuff... :d

 

[BundleflowerPower]

So let's imagine time is an illusion; a human construct for the way to categorize events we perceive or experience.

If there's no time then that could mean that all experiences and events are happening simultaneously. Perhaps this is the case, and our construct of time is simply the linear form in which our brain 'files' the experiences.

We as humans cannot experience the past, nor the future. The present is the only thing we can experience. So how do we know that the past or future even exist? We don't. We only imagine they do. Right?

This is one of the lessons aya has taught me, to live in the present, as past no longer exists, and the future is yet to exist, therefore the present alone is real.

Conversely, I've also had the sense, while on aya, that the present may be a constant interaction between past and future, creating present.

But, the first thing the medicine showed me is that I really don't know anything, so I'm I'm only speculating