Time

Skybird · 10-27-19, 07:33 AM

http://themindunleashed.com/2015/02/...ever-will.html

I stumbled over this, but at a good time, the timing is very good indeed, since some months, lets say around last winter, I somehow feel increasingly uncomfortable with our common conceptions about what time is. I lack the physics education to systematically explore the nature of time - stupid as I am I thought it to be a briliant idea to study psychology, fool that I am - but i always have had an intense amateur's interets in sciences of different branches, and especially astronomy and physics and cosmology, and read abut these frequently. Today you are still beign looked at in a queer way when you doubt the doninating diogma about what time is, and that it even exists, but if I am honest I must admit that I shift more and more towards indeed doubting this: that time exists. As a quality, process, flow of events - somehow I increaisngly feel uncomfrotable with it, cannot like it anymore.

I used to make this joke, that is t=f(m), time understood as a function of time, as if that were such a brilliant formula! And maybe I was on somethign true there, not just in an easy-handed humorours way, but in a serious way that so far I had not even correctly understood myself. Maybe we indeed are not more than pages of a book ripped out, scattered across the floor - and the tale on each side forming the contexts by which to connect to the other pages, but in no preset order, so that the infinite combinations allow infinite numbers of narrations when sorting the pages totogether in this way, or in that way, or in a completely different seqeunce...

I practiced meditation for the better part of my life, I also taught meditation for many years, daily. Here are experiences with timelessness that completely collide and contradict to the usual concpetion of time that I submitted to again when entering "ordnary" everyday life again. I now wonder why this has never caught my attention earlier. Talking of a stubborn donkey, maybe... Interestingly, the descriptions by Barbour in the essay seem to meet views of the matter as expressed in Buddhism and Buddhist psychology abiut the nature of the human mind and the essence of the present moment. Well. Maybe it is no river flowing indeed. Maybe its a still. And another still. And another one. And more. From mediation, I know such states of mind, it can be quite confusing at first, irritating. But wouldnt it be fascinating if modern science concepts would meet this understanding of time not beign existent at all? Maybe Einstein has not spoken the last word yet on all this.

At least I learned one or two new names from that reading that I could use to search on the book market.

10-27-19, 07:33 AM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,602 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Time http://themindunleashed.com/2015/02/...ever-will.html I stumbled over this, but at a good time, the timing is very good indeed, since some months, lets say around last winter, I somehow feel increasingly uncomfortable with our common conceptions about what time is. I lack the physics education to systematically explore the nature of time - stupid as I am I thought it to be a briliant idea to study psychology, fool that I am - but i always have had an intense amateur's interets in sciences of different branches, and especially astronomy and physics and cosmology, and read abut these frequently. Today you are still beign looked at in a queer way when you doubt the doninating diogma about what time is, and that it even exists, but if I am honest I must admit that I shift more and more towards indeed doubting this: that time exists. As a quality, process, flow of events - somehow I increaisngly feel uncomfrotable with it, cannot like it anymore. I used to make this joke, that is t=f(m), time understood as a function of time, as if that were such a brilliant formula! And maybe I was on somethign true there, not just in an easy-handed humorours way, but in a serious way that so far I had not even correctly understood myself. Maybe we indeed are not more than pages of a book ripped out, scattered across the floor - and the tale on each side forming the contexts by which to connect to the other pages, but in no preset order, so that the infinite combinations allow infinite numbers of narrations when sorting the pages totogether in this way, or in that way, or in a completely different seqeunce... I practiced meditation for the better part of my life, I also taught meditation for many years, daily. Here are experiences with timelessness that completely collide and contradict to the usual concpetion of time that I submitted to again when entering "ordnary" everyday life again. I now wonder why this has never caught my attention earlier. Talking of a stubborn donkey, maybe... Interestingly, the descriptions by Barbour in the essay seem to meet views of the matter as expressed in Buddhism and Buddhist psychology abiut the nature of the human mind and the essence of the present moment. Well. Maybe it is no river flowing indeed. Maybe its a still. And another still. And another one. And more. From mediation, I know such states of mind, it can be quite confusing at first, irritating. But wouldnt it be fascinating if modern science concepts would meet this understanding of time not beign existent at all? Maybe Einstein has not spoken the last word yet on all this. At least I learned one or two new names from that reading that I could use to search on the book market. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 10-27-19 at 07:46 AM.