The past is real — neonspectraltoast
The past was real, now it is past, a real past. We are in contact with the past constantly, as every moment incessantly falls into it. If the now has come to have special significance for us, it is due to the fact that we appear to be able to exercise a real influence on the state of affairs in which we find ourselves. So the "temporally inflated" now of a conscious being reflects a state of potential doing. If a large rock falls off a cliff face and then gets poised on the edge of another cliff, just barely balanced, that is a "now," a metastable state on the brink of altering to something else through human intervention.So, I am not confident enough to say that the past is "real" — javi2541997
Isn't a quality of "realness" that it's immutably real, though. I would say so. — neonspectraltoast
We are the only ones capable of measuring the circumstances in time. — javi2541997
As it happens I'm just reading one of the longest novels in the world, whose main themes are the ways in which memories extrude themselves into life, and the ways in which things actually become memorable. — Pantagruel
Based on what evidence? Time may not be linear but we don't know for sure.Time isn't linear. — neonspectraltoast
The time tenses would suggest that past tense means 'was real but is real no longer.' We can only look back in time at a large universal scale. The Sun as it was 8 minutes ago, the furthers galaxies as they were billions of light years ago. What we see in the sky is past tense and may or may not still exist.The knowledge that one is real can't be altered by anything, even death. — neonspectraltoast
I would think it common sense that the past doesn't exist apart from the essence of reality. — neonspectraltoast
The knowledge that one is real can't be altered by anything, even death. — neonspectraltoast
'Whatever is real' is subject/mind/language/gauge-invariant.
The irreversibility of 'the past' is real.
The inexorability of 'the future' is real.
The ineluctability of 'the present' is real.
The inseparability of 'past-present-future' (e.g. origami-like, strange loop-like) is real.
'Whatever is real' encompasses – exhausts – reason and therefore cannot be encompassed – totalized – by, or within, reason. — The Irreality of 180 Proof (excerpts)
How does saying "we" have no proof time isn't linear aid in obtaining proof that time isn't linear. — neonspectraltoast
Is that a serious question or are you just being childish?How does saying "we" have no proof time isn't linear aid in obtaining proof that time isn't linear.
"We" in quotes, because I have witnessed the proof. — neonspectraltoast
You should believe time isn't linear. — neonspectraltoast
The past is real. When you watch a really old movie, the dead are convinced they are real. — neonspectraltoast
that those who are no longer living become reanimated through video and audio playback. — Bret Bernhoft
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