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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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Because it’s easier to say ‘present’ than 8 femtoseconds before. Light takes time to travel from the object to your eyes. So the ‘present’ only really exists in your brain as long as the time sense lobe is sufficiently close to the conscious lobe, else we must consider the time taken to transfer signals in the brain as well.
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Like 'present only really exists in your brain'. This is such a contrast from the common sense where we have just believed that the past and future exist in the brain.
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