Does time exist?

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  1. BdS Registered Senior Member

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    A good place to start might be to understand how/why a MEMORY is required to time things.

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  5. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Memory is required to recall the original beginning, duration, and end of a past event.
     
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  7. BdS Registered Senior Member

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    You even need a memory to acknowledge that events are occurring.
     
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  8. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Without memory we would not be able to "re-cognize" anything at all.

    As Anil Seth posits: "we create our reality from the inside out as much as from the outside in"

    Sometimes our memory fools us;

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    The squares marked A and B are the same shade of gray.

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    A rectangle of the same color has been drawn connecting the two areas of the image.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion

    This illusion is caused by a false memory, an ancient survival mechanism (engram) to "recognize" possible danger hidden in the shadows.

    Memory is Dependent on Synapses Between Engram Cells

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    https://www.brainpost.co/weekly-bra...is-dependent-on-synapses-between-engram-cells

    p.s. IMO, this is very much related to the function of microtubules in the brain.
    (http://sciforums.com/threads/is-con...-in-microtubules.161187/page-112#post-3689694

    I believe this is also responsible for the apparent fast (time flies) or slow (time crawls) subjective passage of time in our interactive experience with the environment.
     
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  9. Beaconator Valued Senior Member

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    I don’t think there is anything that exists that doesn’t have a memory
     
  10. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Max Tegmark has a nice analogy.

    He shows his wedding ring that is inscribed with his wife's name and demonstrates that solids do have capacity for long term memory.
    Then he draws his wife's name in a puddle of water and demonstrates that liquids have very little capacity for memory.

    David Bohm demonstrated that very viscous liquids have capacity for long term memory if the inscribing is done slowly without causing turbulence.
     
  11. BdS Registered Senior Member

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    Every object in the universe and the universe itself has a mass energy history/memory recorded in its current physical configuration. Everything is a product of its history.
    For us to start measuring stuff we need a 3rd party memory and processor?
     
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  12. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    This maybe interesting . You can buy time .


    Just hit the play arrow. It'll get you to YouTube
     
  13. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Why is it necessary that time must exist apart from physical existence"?

    Why can there not just be a timeless permittive condition (dimension) that simply allows for physical phenomena to occur chronologically and for arbitrarily measurable "duration" to emerge as what we call "time".

    Note that "standard time" is a derivative of a physical phenomenon (caesium decay).

    Time is only measurable from physical dynamics, just like mathematics.

    Is time based on math?

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    https://www.splashlearn.com/math-vocabulary/time/time
     
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    Jun 22, 2019 — Among physicists, there is no real doubt that time does really, truly exist. It's a measurable, observable phenomenon.

    If that is the case, then do mathematics exist? It is a measurable, observable phenomenon!
     
  15. origin Heading towards oblivion Valued Senior Member

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    So how big is math?
     
  16. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    How big is time?
    https://www.thoughtco.com/is-time-travel-possible-2699431
     
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  17. Jeeves Valued Senior Member

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    How is that even possible?
     
  18. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Right, that is the question.
     
  19. Jeeves Valued Senior Member

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    Does colour exist apart from physical objects?
     
  20. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    These are all the same question.

    All these phenomena are emergent properties of physical dynamics and mechanics.

    Does wetness exist apart from dry H and O atoms?

    Time does not exist except as an emergent result of duration of physical relationships.

    du·ra·tion, noun
    1. the time during which something continues.
      "a flight of over eight hours' duration"
     
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  21. Jeeves Valued Senior Member

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    That's pretty much what I said on Page 1.
     
  22. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Yes, pretty much, and I agree....

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  23. Jeeves Valued Senior Member

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    Let
    Let's call that a consensus and move on.
     

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