Is time a fundamental aspect of the universe, or is it an illusion created by consciousness?
Time is an illusion. "The Empire never ended."
>>24811909You're an illusion created by consciousness
>>24811909One one hand modern science seems to indicate that spacetime is a ‘real thing’ with properties independent of us. On the other hand time clearly changes its pace based on the observer (fast when we’re having fun, slow when bored, etc.) In the end, how can we determine whether anything is ‘real’ or just an image in consciousness, when all we can possibly experience or imagine is just images in consciousness? Given that our perception of time and space can be profoundly altered by drugs, dreams, and passing moods, I suspect they’re just figments of consciousness.
>>24811909Everything is an illusion created by consciousness. Time, as with everything else is just a part of our conditioned reality manipulated/shaped by consciousness.Its simply a basic conceptual framework we use to describe our experiences, kind of like past present and future are all mental designations rather than an actual fixed reality. Because everything arises dependently time isn't a fundamental aspect of reality, its an illusion created by your consciousness trying to make sense of the disastrous cognition error you live on.
>>24811909Chronos and kairos.
It is both. Time, when pictured as a one-dimensional line, has a beginning point and an end point. The beginning point is the beginning of all nature. The end point is the present. The line of time is whole with a beginning, middle, and end. The critical point of time is the end-point (the present moment). This is like a skin-layer by which the future interfaces with the past through the present. The past is the internal workings of the universal organism; the present is its skin; and the future is outside of the organism. The future feeds the universal organism through ports on its skin - consciousnesses, and this is similar to how a cell has ports on its membrane that allow nourishment to flow in and excretions to flow out. Everything that is felt, touched, seen, smelled, etc, happens on the skin of the universal organism, and all of the various middle-points, or points in the past, intersect with each other and are united with each other. The workings of the past are not stationary or fixed or unchanging. They are always changing and working as the past is fed by the future through the present. This working of the past, as a kind of metabolism, is what creates the illusion of time passing, but time as a whole is fundamental to this organism because it is how this organism is fed and excretes toxins into the future.
Since it’s the same thing as space, I would assume materialism
Time exists so that cause and effect can give us the sensation of experience. >5 M's
>>24811909probably one, but you should usually treat it like the other.