From: Ken Clements (Ken@Innovation-On-Demand.com)
Date: Sat Dec 18 1999 - 14:26:42 MST
Madame Ubiquitous wrote:
>
> If time is an illusion, then you can pretty much give up studying physics,
> chemistry, biology...just about everything that relies on motion or
> reactions, because if time is an illusion, they are as well by extention.
> And since illusions are of no importance to us, those of you in these
> illusionary sciences are in the wrong line of work, epistemologically speaking.
>
> Eileen
>
Dear Eileen,
I did not say that time was an illusion. Time is a (or perhaps many) physical
dimension. The *illusion* is that you are moving in time, or that subjectively,
time passes. It is an artifact of the way your memory works. People who's brains
cannot form memories are stuck in a nonmoving "now", continually wondering "how did
I get here?"
So, please tell me about the "now" that you are Experiencing. What makes it
special, and sets it apart from all the other possible temporal points that have
ever been or will ever be in the Universe? What makes you think "now" exists?
-Ken
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