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From: slfink@netcom.com (Steven Finkelman)
Subject: Re: Time is a human concept (was Re: Reality as a Hologram (Was Re: Discriminative Wisdom))
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 06:48:27 GMT
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phy4dls@cabell.vcu.edu wrote:
: Time can not be only a concept that is percieved by intelegent (for 
: whatever you want to consider intelegent beings) beings, because it 
: rules the universe in the same sort of cause and effect way.
: Essentialy, Time is a dimension (if not only a dimension) as well as 
: a concept.  To claim that it does not exist in the universe, but only in 
: our minds is to claim that space (and everythig else we know to be real)
: as well does not exist.  I guess that would just put us in one great big
: coceptual reality that only exists in our minds.
: Time must exist (both as concept and dimension) for the soul reason
: that it extend just space in three dimensins into a four dimensional
: reality.  Without time we would only exist as a three dimensional diorama
: of sorts that never changes.  With time added in we have motion added and
: four dimensional space time is defined; a diorama with motion.
: Because time allows objects to occupy the same space, but at different 
: coordinates in time, this a;lone should be proof that time does exist.
: Not to mention the fact that things in the universe (even unintelegent 
: things) are at the mercy of a cause and effect continuium we have defined
: as time

The very fact that we are discussing time proves it's existance, if only a
vague concept different to each perciever's conception.

You are discussing a physical model (read set of beliefs) which we are more 
or less have have been tought and agree upon.

Lee, What to you is a dimension? 


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Steven Finkelman
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