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Old Jun 14, 2007, 02:42 pm   #37 (permalink) (top)
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We don't live in the present... we are the present.

The "present" is nothing more than an instantaneous moment. There is no such thing as "now," because when you specify it it's already gone.

Time is a measure of how many instantaneous moments are between the current one and the one being referenced in the past.
If you're familiar with Zeno's Paradoxes, I could argue how time can't be formed of infinite "nows" or "instants" because it would prove that motion is logically impossible. Perhaps time is quantized like photons and we are just "hopping" or teleporting to each segment.


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