The concept of time; applied
Posted on Jun 1st, 2008
by
Evocati
Time. An illusion, concept, application, idea. Whatever you want to call it, time is simply that, an application.
Time is based on the changes we see in the sky - movements of celestial objects, that happen to be rhythmical. No two solar-systems are alike, therefore our rhythm is unique to our universe. If we had existed somewhere else on another solar-system in the universe our concept of time would be different. Now this only means that our version of time is not alike any other version of time there may be in our universe, not that past, present and future are not existing facets of our universe.
The concept of time is of course very practical, but it really does not exist in the same sense as perception exists. Everything that exists, exists now, and the now is ever changing. What we perceive is change, and then we apply time - to measure the changes.
We have a feeling of past experiences, only because we have learned the concept of time, and that experiences which are not being perceived now but only exist in our minds, are in the past. Now the mind begins to draw a line between the past and the present, and this line points to that which we call future.
We see the sun rising and setting every day. There is not one day, when that did not happen. What we see is still change, but it has some rhythm to it, like our breath or hart-beat. I would argue that rithm is certainly an existing aspect of our universe. At some point this rhythm becomes an expectation. We expect to see the sun rise again. Now expectations is something animals have too. When the cat hears the crackling of the bag with cat-food, it knows that food will soon appear in the bowl, and it comes running to get some. Then we have to put these expectations somewhere in our idea of time, and that is of course in the future.
So in regard to the future, it is obvious that if there was a past which was followed by the present, then this present will become past and be followed by another present, the future.
Of course time is a very coherent dimension. It is so coherent, that we are fooled into believing that it actually exists. Why this incredible coherence?
The fact that we contain these experiences in our minds as memory, is part of the leaning process, the evolution. Our memory is a mechanism that works to prevent us from committing the same mistake twice, or at least we try not to. Without it evolution would be impossible. The problem when considering memory is it has an implicit aspect of time, the past. Now this is the true illusion. The memory is not of past experiences, but simply of experiences contained within the being. The future is a reflection of this.
There is only the ever changing, infinite now.
Time is based on the changes we see in the sky - movements of celestial objects, that happen to be rhythmical. No two solar-systems are alike, therefore our rhythm is unique to our universe. If we had existed somewhere else on another solar-system in the universe our concept of time would be different. Now this only means that our version of time is not alike any other version of time there may be in our universe, not that past, present and future are not existing facets of our universe.
The concept of time is of course very practical, but it really does not exist in the same sense as perception exists. Everything that exists, exists now, and the now is ever changing. What we perceive is change, and then we apply time - to measure the changes.
We have a feeling of past experiences, only because we have learned the concept of time, and that experiences which are not being perceived now but only exist in our minds, are in the past. Now the mind begins to draw a line between the past and the present, and this line points to that which we call future.
We see the sun rising and setting every day. There is not one day, when that did not happen. What we see is still change, but it has some rhythm to it, like our breath or hart-beat. I would argue that rithm is certainly an existing aspect of our universe. At some point this rhythm becomes an expectation. We expect to see the sun rise again. Now expectations is something animals have too. When the cat hears the crackling of the bag with cat-food, it knows that food will soon appear in the bowl, and it comes running to get some. Then we have to put these expectations somewhere in our idea of time, and that is of course in the future.
So in regard to the future, it is obvious that if there was a past which was followed by the present, then this present will become past and be followed by another present, the future.
Of course time is a very coherent dimension. It is so coherent, that we are fooled into believing that it actually exists. Why this incredible coherence?
The fact that we contain these experiences in our minds as memory, is part of the leaning process, the evolution. Our memory is a mechanism that works to prevent us from committing the same mistake twice, or at least we try not to. Without it evolution would be impossible. The problem when considering memory is it has an implicit aspect of time, the past. Now this is the true illusion. The memory is not of past experiences, but simply of experiences contained within the being. The future is a reflection of this.
There is only the ever changing, infinite now.

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