RMQualtrough
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The "tick" of time is surely only existent through our subjective experience of reality, and through changes that we experience subjectively... E.g. when a cloud goes by or a ripple in water, we see the image move from position to position, and the position 1 moving to position 2 creates a "tick", as our mind can use the position 1 as a reference point as something being in the past and position 2 being present. This is a timeline that is only existent in our mind?
Without any senses, could time even "tick" between two thoughts? Is there an experience of a "tick" in the absence of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or thought? If so, what is that? If you were without any senses at all, just thought, and ten minutes passed between two thoughts, would you experience the gap between at all, or would it just appear as though thought #2 happened instantly after thought #1?
Or what if there was just black and nothing else, not even thought, and the black never changed. Again, NO thoughts taking place the black is the only thing. And it lasts for 24 hours. Could you actually have any subjective experience of 24 hours passing or would it seem to pass instantly? If there would be a subjective experience of the 24 hours with literally nothing changing at all, what exactly is that?
Spaciousness the same type of thing... Because our sense of "spaciousness", where something is close or far away, is a subjective experience made of senses. Like our ability to add depth to the images taken in by our eyes. Without your mind adding any depth perception to the images it sees, so everything is just a completely flat pancake mishmash of shapes and colors, what exactly would "spaciousness" entail? How would there be "space" between you and a tree in the distance and between that tree and a lamppost right beside you? All things would just make up the mishmash of colors and shapes, completely flat without distance.
Would the real nature of space and time then be nothing at all? Because they can be expressed as numbers and conform to many equations, but numbers aren't "things" and what exactly even is time or space when there is no "tick tock" or no "close by, far away"? Isn't it just numbers which themselves don't really mean anything outside of how they represent matter and how it interacts? Without any "tick tock" or "close by, far away" what even is the material world outside of our subjective perception of it, as it would all be over the instant it began (no tick tock, passage of time meaningless) and everything would exist nowhere at all and all in that same point which isn't even there (because how can you have a real "here" without some "there" to contrast it with).
Without any senses, could time even "tick" between two thoughts? Is there an experience of a "tick" in the absence of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or thought? If so, what is that? If you were without any senses at all, just thought, and ten minutes passed between two thoughts, would you experience the gap between at all, or would it just appear as though thought #2 happened instantly after thought #1?
Or what if there was just black and nothing else, not even thought, and the black never changed. Again, NO thoughts taking place the black is the only thing. And it lasts for 24 hours. Could you actually have any subjective experience of 24 hours passing or would it seem to pass instantly? If there would be a subjective experience of the 24 hours with literally nothing changing at all, what exactly is that?
Spaciousness the same type of thing... Because our sense of "spaciousness", where something is close or far away, is a subjective experience made of senses. Like our ability to add depth to the images taken in by our eyes. Without your mind adding any depth perception to the images it sees, so everything is just a completely flat pancake mishmash of shapes and colors, what exactly would "spaciousness" entail? How would there be "space" between you and a tree in the distance and between that tree and a lamppost right beside you? All things would just make up the mishmash of colors and shapes, completely flat without distance.
Would the real nature of space and time then be nothing at all? Because they can be expressed as numbers and conform to many equations, but numbers aren't "things" and what exactly even is time or space when there is no "tick tock" or no "close by, far away"? Isn't it just numbers which themselves don't really mean anything outside of how they represent matter and how it interacts? Without any "tick tock" or "close by, far away" what even is the material world outside of our subjective perception of it, as it would all be over the instant it began (no tick tock, passage of time meaningless) and everything would exist nowhere at all and all in that same point which isn't even there (because how can you have a real "here" without some "there" to contrast it with).
