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• Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  False. All our sensory input is slightly delayed, and it takes time for our brain to process it anyway. So the past is the only thing that exists and we are all, always living in it.

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  • Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    False. We are only able to perceive what we experience, and by extension, what we experience is what we call “The Present” or “now”. Sensory delay thus plays no role, other than shifting personal “present” a bit forward or backward. What doesn’t change is that we all only exist at the present. What does change is that present == present but present !== present.

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Our conceptual understanding of what “the present” means does not align with the facts.

      The problem with redefining “the present” to mean “our perceived present” is that any reaction we take is already too late. The stuff we experience as “now” is done and gone. Just like if the sun suddenly went out, we would not notice it for 8 minutes or so, but there would be no possible reaction to it to try to “fix” or otherwise change it. It would have already happened.

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  • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    just because we’re acting on information from the past doesn’t mean we arent still in the now. we just get all our data with a little lag. we still interact with the way things are now, even if it takes a little time for us to perceive it. in some ways we’re constantly operating in the dark, relying on our internal predictions about the world to get us through the short little delay before we can see what happened.

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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes, I have been to the past. So have you.

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  • borokov@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You remember having been there, but can you prove it’s not just hallucination or fake memories injected to your brain floating in formole in a laboratory ?

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    • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Mmmmmm…lab grown trauma!

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m a firm believer in last Thursday-ism, so I know in my heart of hearts there are at least 5 days of past

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh yeah? Prove it! I don’t see you there, do you?

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have video and photographic and data analytic proof and a large number of eye witnesses.

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• kaykay@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I just wanna give a shoutout to “later” and “some other day” because that’s when I’ll be doing that thing I don’t wanna do!

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Eat shit future me, you fucking jabroni!

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• silver_wings_of_morning@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Past: contains hitler

  Present: doesn’t

  Present wins

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    there are still nazis in the present :(

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The past is far behind us. The future doesn’t exist!

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• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  All moments in time are equally real, there is no privileged ‘now’ outside of the reference frame used to identify it.

  wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity

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  • MrChewy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hey kiddo

    (gives me chills every time TT)

    (warframe)

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The past existed, but now it doesn’t.

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• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is this what Gen Z motivational posters look like?

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes! Image

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      ryan.gosling.stan should understand better than most that love also numbers among life’s hardships.

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• borokov@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It really annoys me that according to Laplace, a demon knowing the state of any particule in the universe could predict its evolution in the future, but quantum theory just say the opposit. Knowing current state of the univers, you can “predict” everything that has past, but not how it will evolve in the future. Like if present was the cause of everything that happened in the past and we just experiencing time backward.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Knowing current state of the univers, you can “predict” everything that has past

    The observer effect is irreversible. Quantum mechanics is reversible only because it the effect technically falls outside of the mechanics.

    In related news, the entropy of a closed system is usually not constant.

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    • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t the act of observing be baked in from the start, and therefore accounted for?

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• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I believe the documentary The Langoliers was about this

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• wk5ar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  and most of the stars from the sky are already dead so were staring at the past when we look at night sky. also to underestimate someone you have been in the past or forget what you have done and put that to zero value is wrong. just saying in my case at least. i like the now, in the same time i don’t.

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• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But right now… Is by now already the past.

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