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To: Amos the Prophet

A good way to think about it is that we simply do not have a sensory input to detect the passage of time the way we have eyes and ears to detect size, shape, depth and location of objects in space.

Our perception of time is just that - our perception.


28 posted on 10/16/2010 8:23:07 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - Orwell)
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To: Personal Responsibility
...we simply do not have a sensory input to detect the passage of time....

Excellent. Of course our sensory input is similarly subjective. We measure time as the distance between two points. I had a prof who claimed that thinking about time for too long would render one insane.

29 posted on 10/17/2010 7:00:29 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The American Revolution is just as unpopular with statists today as it was at our founding.)
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