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KP (d/acc)
@kpx
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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Gwynne Michele
@thecurioushermit
Language does seem to affect how we perceive the passage of time, though we're not certain how much it affects it. Different languages frame it differently, but it's hard to study the subjective experience of time across cultures.
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Q🎩
@qsteak.eth
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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Naomi
@naomiii
I read this really interesting essay about people trying to build clocks measuring natural time such as the time of trees etc. And referring to how people without clocks used other signposts often lived more in sync with their surroundings. On the topic of linearity there's some esoteric books that'd question that arguing more for circularity. Also of course "Arrival" or the shorty story it's based on by Ted Chiang : story of your life. https://www.noemamag.com/a-clock-in-the-forest/
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Mkkstacks
@mkkstacks
Interesting...How is "live in the present" responsible? And how do you think about time?
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Metaphorical Leo
@hyp
our minds flow
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AlleyTac
@alleytac
Let's resume to the facts, shall we? No one can live in the past because the past does not exist. It exist-ed, not anymore. We can remember the past, but that's different than living in it. No one can live in the future because the future does not exist... yet. We can anticipate the future, but that's different than living in it. What we can only experience is the present. We can't live otherwise than in the present, can we? Thus, this is not a poetic expression but the only aspect of time we can experience directly as a reality. Poetic expressions are more likely 'living in the past' or 'living in the future'. Time is a mental construct invented since antiquity to help our minds understand the physical world. But the only part of the time concept that exists as a fact is 'now'. Everything else about time is poetry. (1/2)
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Dan Finlay 🦊
@danfinlay
We now know that gravity is transmitted in waves, and time is a function of gravity, so wouldn’t that be one reasonably grounded model in which time very much does flow?
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aexek.eth
@axek
Where's the screenshot from?
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