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13:03 Apr 21, 2017 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Social Sciences - Philosophy / view of time | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Yvonne Gallagher Ireland Local time: 21:24 | ||||||
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4 +4 | we are the ones putting names on or demarcating time |
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3 +1 | ¿Es el tiempo una creación nuestra? |
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are we the creation of time? ¿Es el tiempo una creación nuestra? Explanation: This idea of time being inexistent beyond ourselves and in opposition to Newton's physics, comes from Kant is his Transcendental Aesthetic, where he states that Time and Space are just molds through which we process impressions of the sensitivity. Through Space we process "quality", and through Time we process succession. In this sense, we would be the "creators" of time. |
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are we the creation of time? we are the ones putting names on or demarcating time Explanation: as explained here: There is in reality no “new year” anywhere beyond our mind.... animals, nature etc doesn't see a new year or new day/month etc. "As we’ve seen in a prior now, when we leave the reality of now-here, we move the hyphen and become no-where. That is the risk of believing the mind’s illusion of time existing as some unitary something that flows rather than a facet of our four-dimensional spacetime reality..." -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 18 mins (2017-04-21 13:22:20 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- humans have to put boundaries of some sort on time or mark it in some way, hence this feeling of "creating time" is really an illusion, or as you said: "the author seems to share the quantum physics’ view that time doesn’t exist as a separate entity..." -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 38 mins (2017-04-21 13:42:29 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- OK I do understand your doubts. I've reread and thought some more about this There is a series of questions: are we the sunrise/lapping waves, a creation of time and etc.? In other words, have these things created us? I find that rather strange and think the author is taking a lot of poetic licence. Does he really want to imply that the universe has created us? Of course, that would link into the philosophy where we are but atoms... But I read it as we, humans, are the ones "creating" the time by naming it as periods or units...New Year celebrations etc. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 42 mins (2017-04-21 13:46:43 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I agree it is rather confusing and ambiguous and can be read in various ways! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2017-04-21 14:05:35 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- More reading for you! https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time/ https://www.scientificexploration.org/forum/is-time-a-concep... All concepts, like society or beauty, are created, ... Just like mathematical concepts (more human inventions) help us come to terms with, or help us explain, reality, ditto our artificially constructed concept of time. You certainly don’t hear cosmologists talk about the Big Bang creating concepts like mathematics, society, Wednesday, birthdays, beauty, atheism or velocity. Concepts like these have no tangibility – you can’t weigh them or put them under a microscope..." -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 days (2017-04-26 20:56:12 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- Glad to have helped |
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