I have not found words to accurately convey such an experience.
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Does present exists ?
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chinu
Actually, am just trying to make you understand the way I understood.So, you don't practice what you preach?
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Experience is beyond the limit of words, I agree
PearlSeeker
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In the popular essay "Brain Time", David Eagleman explains that different types of sensory information (auditory, tactile, visual, etc.) are processed at different speeds by different neural architectures. The brain must learn how to overcome these speed disparities if it is to create a temporally unified representation of the external world:
if the visual brain wants to get events correct timewise, it may have only one choice: wait for the slowest information to arrive. To accomplish this, it must wait about a tenth of a second. In the early days of television broadcasting, engineers worried about the problem of keeping audio and video signals synchronized. Then they accidentally discovered that they had around a hundred milliseconds of slop: As long as the signals arrived within this window, viewers' brains would automatically resynchronize the signals. He goes on to say, "This brief waiting period allows the visual system to discount the various delays imposed by the early stages; however, it has the disadvantage of pushing perception into the past. There is a distinct survival advantage to operating as close to the present as possible; an animal does not want to live too far in the past. Therefore, the tenth-of-a-second window may be the smallest delay that allows higher areas of the brain to account for the delays created in the first stages of the system while still operating near the border of the present. This window of delay means that awareness is retroactive, incorporating data from a window of time after an event and delivering a delayed interpretation of what happened."
Time perception - Wikipedia
PearlSeeker
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A similar delay is also in audio recording - audio latency.
en.m.wikipedia.org
Latency (audio) - Wikipedia
Yes.
The past and future are in your mind, the present is where you live though you may not see it or feel it or hear it until it is past.
Balthazzar
Christian Evolutionist
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Past. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Future
Yup, makes sense. My brain is only wired for brief moments but everything else is still in play, so the present is my only existence. There is no future until it becomes my current moment, but the future is always present, so I'm just trying to catch up with it.
Past. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Future
Yup, makes sense. My brain is only wired for brief moments but everything else is still in play, so the present is my only existence. There is no future until it becomes my current moment, but the future is always present, so I'm just trying to catch up with it.
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Trailblazer
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The PRESENT is the only thing that exists...
The PAST is gone and the FUTURE is not here yet.
Trailblazer
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Feeding the outdoor animals and indoor cats comes before coffee... every day.Meditation comes before coffee...every day.
My outdoor animals feed themselves, and I no longer live with cats.Feeding the outdoor animals and indoor cats comes before coffee... every day.
Trailblazer
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Oh I see.... a life of leisure!My outdoor animals feed themselves, and I no longer live with cats.
Must be nice, but I'd miss my cats and outdoor animals if they weren't here, especially because there is no longer anyone else here.
The present exists in the future - unless one can prove otherwise. And similarly - the present now exists in the past, even if none were around to record this.
Trailblazer
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Only the present exists.The present exists in the future - unless one can prove otherwise. And similarly - the present now exists in the past, even if none were around to record this.
The future is not here yet. It does not exist until it becomes the present.
Once the future is here then it becomes the present.
The past is gone. As soon as the past becomes the present the past exists only as a memory.
I think it is a shame that so many people live in the past or in the future instead of in the present.
The present is here before you know it - and from the future.
But what happened cannot be undone. Hence the present exists in the past.
Trailblazer
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I am sorry, but you lost me.The present is here before you know it - and from the future.
But what happened cannot be undone. Hence the present exists in the past.
How does the present come from the future?
How does the present exist in the past?
Where else would it come from? The future slides into the present like a fine wine glides down the throat.I am sorry, but you lost me.
How does the present come from the future?
Like a timestamp - can't be altered.
It's all that exists the past and future are creations of the mind.
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
I see it the opposite way. It is the present that slides into the future like a fine wine glides down the throatWhere else would it come from? The future slides into the present like a fine wine glides down the throat.
How does the past prevent the present from being altered?
PearlSeeker
Well-Known Member
Present is a consequence of past. So it's from the past and moves to the future (possibilities).
What happened can't be undune because it doesn't exist anymore but consequences exist. Now you can change the course.