Ya know, I was going to say this makes no sense since the passage of time is obvious, but I get what you're saying. I think 'Time' as we know it might be a 4th dimension, especially if it really doesn't "exist". It's all going on but we can only comprehend the present
Tertium Organum was a fucked up book, but anyone who's into psychedelics should read it. He talks about time as an example of a dimension we can't percieve outside of changes in our environment. The argument he makes is that you can't imagine what a four dimensional object would look like since we only have 3 dimensional perspective. If you only had 2-dimensional perception, as in you can see objects horizontally but not vertically, a tree would look like a horizontal line in front of you that was as long as the width of the tree. And if you grabbed a baloon and started floating upwards, as the tree branches out, you would see the line break up into smaller horizontal lines moving further apart, since you can only "see" a slice of what's directly in front of you. This person would think they were watching an object break apart and dissolve, and there would be no way to explain to them that the object not only still exists but the individual pieces are actually connected through a third dimension of "Up and down" that you were travelling through, because to them up and down doesn't exist. You would only see things as either obstacles or empty space without an ability to actually see the characteristics of what you were looking at.
If you had the ability to see through time, even a limited ability like you can look into a room and see a 6 minute span of time all at once, 3 minutes into the past and 3 minutes into the future, the world wouldn't be three dimensional anymore.
Is it normal I don’t believe in time?
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Ya know, I was going to say this makes no sense since the passage of time is obvious, but I get what you're saying. I think 'Time' as we know it might be a 4th dimension, especially if it really doesn't "exist". It's all going on but we can only comprehend the present
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Tertium Organum was a fucked up book, but anyone who's into psychedelics should read it. He talks about time as an example of a dimension we can't percieve outside of changes in our environment. The argument he makes is that you can't imagine what a four dimensional object would look like since we only have 3 dimensional perspective. If you only had 2-dimensional perception, as in you can see objects horizontally but not vertically, a tree would look like a horizontal line in front of you that was as long as the width of the tree. And if you grabbed a baloon and started floating upwards, as the tree branches out, you would see the line break up into smaller horizontal lines moving further apart, since you can only "see" a slice of what's directly in front of you. This person would think they were watching an object break apart and dissolve, and there would be no way to explain to them that the object not only still exists but the individual pieces are actually connected through a third dimension of "Up and down" that you were travelling through, because to them up and down doesn't exist. You would only see things as either obstacles or empty space without an ability to actually see the characteristics of what you were looking at.
If you had the ability to see through time, even a limited ability like you can look into a room and see a 6 minute span of time all at once, 3 minutes into the past and 3 minutes into the future, the world wouldn't be three dimensional anymore.