The Illusion Of Time?

Time, what is time, and why is it important? Well time is a concept that humans’ brains can perceive, in fact their brains basically construct the past, the present, and the future. Basically, time is a measurement system, and without it the human race wouldn’t have ever existed. Humans have a very simple understanding of time, and they still do not understand its full potential. Humans only understand the measurement of time, and the manipulation and capturing of time overwhelms them. To this day the only way humans have captured time is their memory, and even then they still get it wrong sometimes.

Time. It is an aspect of everyday life, but is it always reliable? “Time is somewhat indeterminate in this story…”(Stoicheff 2). In this short story, the main character is Peyton Farquhar, he is an average civilian who is caught in the act of something illegal.. He was caught trying to sabotage a bridge being used by the Union soldiers.. Farquhar is to be executed by way of the gallos. As Farquhar sits on the plank over the river before his death, his mind begins to slow things down.

Let us begin by saying that time cannot be stopped nor slowed down but must be followed. Meaning that on some occasions we

Time, from one person’s experience to another, from day to day, from emotion to emotion, varies more than the individuals who experience it. Yet time still can be measured. People, almost from the earth’s inception, have had a desire to regulate time. This is still seen today, with all the watches, phone clocks, wall clocks, analog clocks, digital clocks, grandfather clocks, atomic clocks, timers, and stopwatches. Unfortunately, while it is possible to measure the actual emissions from an atom’s atomic transition, it is impossible to measure time perception in different circumstances. Both the poem “Time Is”, and the statue “Father Time”, portray the integral role of time in humanity.

Timing is everything they say, well what exactly is time? So I decided to do some research and look up the definition on Oxfords Dictionaries to see what the exact meaning of time is. Time is the “indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole” it also means “a point of time as measured in hours and minutes past midnight or noon” (Oxfords Dictionaries). The thought about time and the concept of it came to my mind today because it actually happened to be the last day of daylight savings. It made me wonder what is time and does it really exist and why do we have daylight savings. Is time something created by man or nature, or could it all just be an illusion inside your brain.

J.M.E McTaggart’s ‘The Unreality of Time’ is respected today as his foremost and best known work within Academia. It is appropriate that this work shares the title of one of his most enduring Philosophical projects, establishing that Time is unreal or does not exist. In regards to the question ‘Did He Succeed?’ while being a perfectly typical critical Philosophical essay topic, it would be beyond the scope of this essay to definitively say Yes or No. The standards of Western Philosophy just seem to be that for any of those enduring questions that have been the topic of study for in some cases nearly three thousand years in the discipline to be said to be definitively answered, the standard and breadth of evidence would be so great that no one would be asking if a Philosopher really did succeed in his project nearly a century after his death. So in this essay I will discuss how McTaggart attempted to establish the unreality of time, but in the context of not trying to argue he actually established it beyond doubt. McTaggart sought to establish the unreality of time by means of demonstrating how flawed conventional conceptions within Philosophy of Time were. So I will also seek to demonstrate he did at least establish that current conceptions of time were flawed and throw serious doubt upon then.

Time Time is defined as a measured or measurable period, a continuum that lacks spatial dimensions. This broad definition lacks the simple explanation that humans are searching for. There are many scientists, philosophers, and thinkers who have tried to put time into understanding terms. The aspects of time that we can understand are only based on what we can perceive, observe, and calculate. Every day we look at our watches or clocks.

It could argued that our common-sense notion of endurance through time is incorrect. That this mistaken self-conception lead us to experience the passage of time. If so, this would be illusory no? And if this enduring ‘me’ is an illusion then so is the passage of time.

The only thing in my life that I can be positive about is change. Everything changes, from the moment we’re born to the moment we die. Reality has many twist and turns, and our perception of reality is what shapes us to become who we are. Our life is spent on deciphering the difference between reality and not reality. This is hard to define because reality is unique to each individual.

When you go to school at the first day it feels like a long time for you to get their but the more you take that route to school there is nothing “new” happening, and your mind does not memorize the instances you are in. Other scientists such as Wallach and Green studied the way time is interpreted they asked young adults (ages 18-20) how they feel time are like, most answered with stationary motions like “motionless” and “quiet”. The other group (most around the age 78) described time as rapid, fast, and swift “time is a speeding train”. Other research furthermore added to the building

Back in 1986, Henri Bergson theorized the subject of dual time: objective time, which is determinate and measurable and subjective time formed on the

     According to traditional concepts, time is considered to be a two-dimensional phenomenon, with a long past, a present, and virtually no future. The linear concept of time is western thought, with an indefinite past, present, and future, is practically nonexistent to African thinking. The future is absent because the events that lie in it have not taken place, they have not been realized, and therefore, they cannot constitute time.

Time is the existence or events in the past, present, and future. It’s different for each person, culture and around the world. For me, time is the most important thing about time is when it comes to family. Family is the most important thing in the world, I don’t know how long I will have time with them because they can go away and won’t see each other anymore. An example, of when time influences me is when I visited my grandma in Mexico. Spending time with my grandma was the best thing in my life because I never get to see her. Laughing and interacting with her was amazing because I hardly time to be with her because she lives far. Both of my parents, believe time is important. Each of them always go and visit other family members to spend time with them and hang out. When my grandma visits, she always talks about the old memories of what she went through and about my dad. Time for her is fading and she recalls memories to just let time pass.

This postulate developed by Einstein has what some would call key problems and would cause uproar in conventional thinking. Things such as time now become variables when original thinking classified it as an unchanging constant. Just thinking about this prospect can be mind boggling. Time is something that everyone takes for granted as being a constant flow, just ticking away, and perpetual. But, in fact, it is something that depends entirely on space-time. How do we know that time is relative? Imagine a different kind of clock. This clock is unique because instead of a hand ticking away it is actually a beam of light bouncing between two mirrors. This would seem the most logical choice of an accurate clock because light is a constant right? As we observe the clock it ticks off at regular

It is paradoxical to have a course, which revolves round the corrosiveness of faulted Western notions of time and its depiction through abstraction, identify itself with an abstract title but argue for the concreteness and tangibility of the portrayal of time and space. A Place Beyond Time does just that. Containing a vastly abstract title, A Place Beyond Time may at first glance appear to properly relate time as a tangent notion with space. Upon further contemplation, however, it becomes patent that A Place Beyond Time possesses a conspicuous absence present in its philosophy of aloofness from intangibility. And although the name of the course attempts to tackle and manifest the complications of abstract and concrete time, it is through its lack of definition and precision, lack of possession, and lack of sensation of repetition that A Place Beyond Time fails to properly capitalize on this dilemma.