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Major today's problem is today itself

questfortruth

Well-Known Member
The paper

Is gravity the force driving time forwards? | Cosmos

adds to the Entropy growth the complexity growth. But did not explain, why today is 2020, but not 2021, or not 2019. You could think of the answer: "Because the earth rotates around the sun. And it's rotated around the sun 2020 times since 0 AC." But looking at spacetime continuum we can conclude, that the 2020 is not fundamentally special than the 2021 or 2019. Why we feel, that today is 2020 only?

Reality works on proper definitions and on the correct use of words. This is
due to the First Law of Aristotle's Logic.
The problem with definition of today.
1. Today is 2020. Year ago then, today was 2019.
2. Today is what you see on the clock today (right now).
Do you see the problem?

Dr. Eugene: "did you break the "matrix" with this statement?"

Look at the sky: quietly, without noise, one by one the stars go out [do you need the reference to observations?].

Dr. Eugene: "Today is the current day."

If it were so simple, then every wiseman would not think about time. The Niels Bohr (?) says: your idea is crazy, but not crazy enough to be true. I have 100% strange idea. Define today without tautology like "today is today."

Dr. Eugene: "The present, as opposed to the past or the future. Now, as opposed to before or after."

Bad definition, because past is defined through the present. Tautology again: present is not past, latter is defined as time prior to present.

Solution: a human is Omnipresent along his life-line. But the human has different brain power along life-line. Thus, the mind can not process all information together, so it choses subsequent moments of time and calling them Present. "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." (Matthew 6:34 NIV). The speed then of processing information is different for each person, that is while somebody feels like time is running fast, other - that slow.
"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize." 1 Corinthians 9:24.

 
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QuestioningMind

Well-Known Member
The paper

Is gravity the force driving time forwards? | Cosmos

adds to the Entropy growth the complexity growth. But did not explain, why today is 2020, but not 2021, or not 2019. You could think of the answer: "Because the earth rotates around the sun. And it's rotated around the sun 2020 times since 0 AC." But looking at spacetime continuum we can conclude, that the 2020 is not fundamentally special than the 2021 or 2019. Why we feel, that today is 2020 only?

Reality works on proper definitions and on the correct use of words. This is
due to the First Law of Aristotle's Logic.
The problem with definition of today.
1. Today is 2020. Year ago then, today was 2019.
2. Today is what you see on the clock today (right now).
Do you see the problem?

Dr. Eugene: "did you break the "matrix" with this statement?"

Look at the sky: quietly, without noise, one by one the stars go out [do you need the reference to observations?].

Dr. Eugene: "Today is the current day."

If it were so simple, then every wiseman would not think about time.


But looking at spacetime continuum we can conclude, that the 2020 is not fundamentally special than the 2021 or 2019. Why we feel, that today is 2020 only?

Yet the year 2020 IS fundamentally 'special' when measuring the number of years from year 0 AC. It is ONE MORE year that 2019 and ONE LESS year than 2021. IF you choose to start measuring from a year OTHER THAN 0 AC then 2020 is NOT the current year. For instance according to the Chinese calendar the current year is 4718.

There's only a problem if you fail to recognize that there is a difference between PAST years and the CURRENT year.
 

questfortruth

Well-Known Member
But looking at spacetime continuum we can conclude, that the 2020 is not fundamentally special than the 2021 or 2019. Why we feel, that today is 2020 only?

Yet the year 2020 IS fundamentally 'special' when measuring the number of years from year 0 AC. It is ONE MORE year that 2019 and ONE LESS year than 2021. IF you choose to start measuring from a year OTHER THAN 0 AC then 2020 is NOT the current year. For instance according to the Chinese calendar the current year is 4718.

There's only a problem if you fail to recognize that there is a difference between PAST years and the CURRENT year.
Define today without tautology like "today is today."
 

questfortruth

Well-Known Member
The property of entropy exists even without gravity.
Solution: a human is Omnipresent along his life-line. But the human has different brain power along life-line. Thus, the mind can not process all information together, so it choses subsequent moments of time and calling them Present. "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." (Matthew 6:34 NIV). The speed then of processing information is different for each person, that is while somebody feels like time is running fast, other - that slow.
 

QuestioningMind

Well-Known Member
Bad definition, because past is defined through the present.Tautology again: present is not past, latter is defined as time prior to present.

It's a required definition, since past, present, and future are all states of time, and the definition of each is dependent upon the others. You can't have a concept of the past without a concept of the present and the future. Nor can you have a concept of the present without a concept of the past and the future. Furthermore, you can't have a concept of the future without a concept of the present and the past.
 

mikkel_the_dane

My own religion
Solution: a human is Omnipresent along his life-line. But the human has different brain power along life-line. Thus, the mind can not process all information together, so it choses subsequent moments of time and calling them Present. "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." (Matthew 6:34 NIV). The speed then of processing information is different for each person, that is while somebody feels like time is running fast, other - that slow.

A human is Omnipresent along his life-line.
A human has different brain power along life-line.
The human mind can not process all information together, so it choses subsequent moments of time and calling them Present
A human is and is not Omnipresent along his life-line.

BTW If there is a time line, there are positions on the line, thus past, present and future. That is not so. A time line is not made of positions in time. So your argument that doesn't hold, because there is no time line. You are not born, alive and dead. Don't you get it?

Regards
Mikkel
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Solution: a human is Omnipresent along his life-line. But the human has different brain power along life-line. Thus, the mind can not process all information together, so it choses subsequent moments of time and calling them Present. "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." (Matthew 6:34 NIV). The speed then of processing information is different for each person, that is while somebody feels like time is running fast, other - that slow.
While I'm very rusty on thermodynamics,
I'm pretty sure I never ran across that
aspect of it during my studies.
 
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