(08-23-2024, 04:42 PM)Maxmars Wrote: At the risk of pissing people off....
"Time" is a perception.
Like all perception we are driven to "measure it" by our nature as thinking creatures.
'Measuring' means translating the concept into language...
'Language' is a tool... not always directly suited to every concept equally.
We'll get to the meaning eventually, when we get to the reality of the perception... it's a journey, not a destination.
Part of the problem(and the confusion) here is in applying the same label to similar but different phenomena. There has to be a distinction made between the 'cosms' of time.
1. Macrocosmic Time. This is the fourth dimension. This is the time that (apparently) exists regardless of your perception of it. A seed will exist and germinate even if you aren't watching it.
2. Microcosmic Time. This is an aspect of time that is peculiar and most intimate with individual consciousness and is experienced internally as a passing of moments and also more relevant in a context of "perception".
In any event they are both pertinent to "change" whether it be internal(within(me)), or external(without(me)).
Now if you really wanted to go nuts with this you could extrapolate and form an analogy of the lesser cosms existing as a likeness of the larger one, so you have the microcosm which is consciousness linked to time within(internal), and you have the macrocosm which is consciousness linked to time without(external).
Time within – the mind of man; time without – the mind of God(or primordial for those that scoff at the "God" terminology).
Time actually does appear to be quite intimate with and inseparable from consciousness regardless of the cosm. Time is change and nothing can function without it other than maybe an acausal factor – an unmoved mover.
