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Is it just because of the language that we inherited the idea - Time flows. Time obviously does not flow. But thinking otherwise is so damn difficult. Is 'Live in the present', which is a poetic expression, responsible for it? Seeing time as a line, where past is on left and future is on right, is such a common mental model when we think of 'passing' of time.
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The reason I think 'present' is poetic is because it is not well defined. How long is the present? Is it 1 second, 1 minute, 1 hour or a day. The last minute passed should be past as we are not living at the last minute. The last second should be past too. So 'living in the present' can't be scientific ig.
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Well, it's as 'scientific' as real numbers are, or the concept of infinity, if you want. Not all things are entirely accessible to science... yet! Until then, totally understanding your angle, I agree it's poetry or simple theories. How long is now is undefined, and mathematically, it tends to zero without ever achieving it. It is one of those riddles in which both existence and nonexistence are equally acceptable. 'Now' is a Schrödinger cat scenario that cannot be measured. Aristotle compared the present to a "knife edge without thickness," the thinnest line possible that separates the past and future. It is the only time we know, yet it is also beyond our grasp since, as I said before, we cannot observe and/or measure timelessness. But imo, this is even more amazing than a scientific, accurate depiction of what is now. (1/2)
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To make things even more complicated, we only think that we have access to 'now' but it's not exactly true. A ray of light coming towards our retina needs an interval of time (very tiny, but still an interval) until it forms an understandable image in our brain. The truth is that we are not living in the now but in a very, very close past! Going back to your attached pic, I guess 'the nonsense' is referring to the entire cult of time created in our modern society. Just crazy... (2/2)
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