Post by Sylvia ElsePost by The StarmakerPost by Sylvia ElsePost by The StarmakerTime AND Space is an Illusion.
and that's that!
any questions?
What are you on?
Sylvia.
Is time an illusion, Mrs. Else?
An illusion is perceptual process that causes something to have an
appearance that differs significantly from its reality.
So it is difficult to attach any real meaning to your question.
Sylvia.
It's difficult to attach any meaning to things Starfaker posts, but
nevertheless the question is a valid one.
Can you imagine a situation where time is an Illusion? What does that
mean. Well, it would mean that in your PERCEPTION events would progress
and develop to your perception from the past to the present to the
future. But since it's an illusion, it would mean that in truth nothing
is changing at all and all events and seeming actions are perpetually
fixed and immutable.
How can this be? Well as you say it's all about "perception". Like the
people in Plato's cave let us suppose that your perception of events
(reality) is entirely due to your consciousness. You consciousness is
observing shadows on the cave wall that you take to be reality. Only
that doesn't fit well with our experience of "reality". So let's
"improve" Plato's idea and instead of sitting and observing life go by
on the cave wall, say all of the universe INCLUDING all possible
effects, events and things that COULD happen are cast into a huge...well
we knew Hollywood physics would enter in, right?...Matrix!
When you experience "time" in truth your consciousness is experiencing a
VELOCITY over the matrix. Your "past" is the path your consciousness
took, through the matrix up to now. The present is the location where
your consciousness is presently located and the future is innumerable
paths your consciousness COULD take from the present point. Note that
since the start of the future path must be the present point, MANY paths
are available but most are not. Jumps we presume are not allowed.
Thus, one can say, there is NO time, it is all ONE time and there is no
space, it is all ONE space! And it becomes obvious that the past is
fixed (it is the path you took!) And the future is not (many paths
available). However if we apply Newton's laws we see that any path from
the past will tend to move forward on a given trajectory unless acted
upon by a FORCE. And that force would be Mind or what is termed "will".
Hence ability to get outside of causality (coasting) is termed free will.
It's all so simple, Sylivia, I wonder why nobody "gets" it?