What is time?

[Dontaskme]

From self to self an endless spring.

(Forcing myself to repeat myself)
P.S What's the matter, is my ego feeling "challenged".


Do I need to prove something to somebody? Am I feeling.... anger? Aggravation? Frustration?

Good! I know how to push my own buttons

Do I need to keep repeating to myself on an endless loop forever until I let go of the need to repeat myself?

[attofishpi]

I've already explained what TIME actually is, as far as I'm concerned this thread should already be dead.

I think we can look at time objectively by understanding that time is simply the occurrence of an event, no event, no time - a true moment in time.
So what we are looking at, objectively, is the most finite point in 3D space - where, either an event occurs or it doesn't. Binary reality.

But this contradicts our perception of time.

So what? Our perception is also because of events occurring in the sub atomic fabric of our brain.

One moment, no or very few events. Another moment, a furious myriad of events. I don't think anyone believes time actually slows down or speeds up with the number of events.

Yes, it does. Gravity and the speed one has through space affects the events.

We even had to devise special contraptions, clocks, to produce special events occurring at regular time intervals, tick·tacks, to tell us time.

Yes, time is the measurement of events that man has attuned clocks to.

And even if nothing happens around you, your own body is doing all sorts of things and your brain makes sure you have a notion of the passage of time.

As above RE our perception.

A moment in time isn't an instant. "Moment" is just another word for "period of time", only suggesting something shorter. A moment is just a short period of time, say from less than a second to more than one minute. It really doesn't mean anything to ask for a precise duration. How long is a moment? It depends... It was supposed to take just a moment but we waited instead a long moment in silence...

As I said, at its most finite a moment in time is binary, either there is an event in 3D space, or there isn't - yes, this includes the events occurring within the 'fabric' of our brain.

If time was the occurrence of an event, or the succession of events, there would be no reason for similar processes to take the same amount of time.

Similar is a massive word in the context of time.

Scientists have for the first time been able to measure something in a zeptosecond, or a trillionth of a billionth of a second.
An attosecond is even larger but is 1×10−18 of a second (one quintillionth of a second). For context, an attosecond is to a second what a second is to about 31.71 billion years. The word "attosecond" is formed by the prefix atto and the unit second.

Instead, if you think events occur in time, in some sort of preexisting time, then events will take a certain time to unfold according to their nature.

No, I don't think you are quite getting this. Events ARE time.

Unless, if there is just one fundamental type of event.

The events that make up our reality - at the binary most finite scale - possibly well beneath the planck scale, may be related to other events in 3D space, but not necessarily in a causal relationship.

The time for a macroscopic event to unfold would depend on the fundamental events it is made of. In fact, I can't see any other explanation.

Such as the huge amount of events that must occur for a second hand to move a second.

[Dontaskme]

The anal technician seems to be rather agitated.

That's what happens when your still centre takes a nosey dive into the hurricane, it gets lost in it's own spin, loving the spin it's in.

The centreless centre allowing it all to happen, looking on in complete detachment

[Dontaskme]

I've already explained what TIME actually is, as far as I'm concerned this thread should already be dead.

Every ''thing'' is dead.

I see dead people.

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[Walker]

That's what happens when your still centre takes a nosey dive into the hurricane, it gets lost in it's own spin, loving the spin it's in.

That's pretty good.

[Logik]

Nonsense. I have a concept. I know

You are Not-knowing conceptual knowing, all knowledge informs the illusory nature of the implied knower.

There is nothing to know or understand.

Ego death.

Yet the need to say your ego is dead remains.

[Logik]

No problems here.

He supplied his own labels.

The anal technician seems to be rather agitated.

The technician is sipping coffee not giving a fuck

The "anal" adjective was all your doing. I am shoving cactuses up your ass, not mine.

[Dontaskme]

Nonsense. I have a concept. I know

You are Not-knowing conceptual knowing, all knowledge informs the illusory nature of the implied knower.

There is nothing to know or understand.

Ego death.

Yet the need to say your ego is dead remains.

Show me a man who has finished with words so that I may have a word with him.

I leave you to have the final last word.

Your Ego refusing to die.

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[Walker]

No problems here.

He supplied his own labels.

The anal technician seems to be rather agitated.

The technician is sipping coffee not giving a fuck

The "anal" adjective was all your doing. I am shoving cactuses up your ass, not mine.

Well, aren't you disgusting, anal technician.

[Dontaskme]

No problems here.

He supplied his own labels.

The anal technician seems to be rather agitated.

The technician is sipping coffee not giving a fuck

The "anal" adjective was all your doing. I am shoving cactuses up your ass, not mine.

Well, aren't you disgusting, anal technician.

Laugh my ass off.

It's disgusting what we do to others, but wouldn't dream of doing to ourself.

Have you ever stuck a cactus up your own ass Walker?



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[attofishpi]

I've already explained what TIME actually is, as far as I'm concerned this thread should already be dead.

Every ''thing'' is dead.

I see dead people.

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..all i ever see with your posts is what amounts to stupidity. This entire thread has been derailed into the abyss of irrelevance.

[Walker]

The technician is sipping coffee not giving a fuck

The "anal" adjective was all your doing. I am shoving cactuses up your ass, not mine.

Well, aren't you disgusting, anal technician.

Laugh my ass off.

It's disgusting what we do to others, but wouldn't dream of doing to ourself.

Have you ever stuck a cactus up your own ass Walker?



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I wouldn't even dream of it.

Perish the thought.

[Logik]

From this one here..3rd person perspective..I see no anger in Walker, only counter argument...the anger is yours, Walker never used the concept...look in your own mirror...

The mirror needs to expand its perspective. Look at Walker's posts in the other threads

[Logik]

Well, aren't you disgusting, anal technician.

"Anal" is still your adjective. You just can't help yourself pinning labels on things, can you?

Tsk tsk. What would you do without language. Think?

Can you?

[Logik]

Show me a man who has finished with words so that I may have a word with him.

The "dead" ego self-resuscitates!

I leave you to have the final last word.

Your Ego refusing to die.

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Was that your final last word?

To me in particular, or on this forum in general? I guess only silence will tell...