How long is the present?

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How long is the present moment in time? At the point the future stops being the future and becomes the present, how long does it exist for before it becomes the past? Is the change instant, ie future > past, or is there some tiny unit of time that "ticks" over, as in future > present > past?
 
The present doesn't exist, it's just a convenient attempt at not bending people's minds.

The change from past to present is instantaneous.
 
hmmmmmmmmmm

robmiller said:
The present doesn't exist, it's just a convenient attempt at not bending people's minds.

The change from past to present is instantaneous.
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I dont think their is even a change.



The present is the length of time a clock takes to make a single tick. The present could be the length of a reverse-forward, obtuse, man triangle, dougnut but im not sure. :p

The present cant be measured? :confused:
 
Moredhel said:
How long is the present moment in time? At the point the future stops being the future and becomes the present, how long does it exist for before it becomes the past? Is the change instant, ie future > past, or is there some tiny unit of time that "ticks" over, as in future > present > past?
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the future doesnt exist. if the future existed then we would all be in the past, the only thing that exists is the present and the past has already gone
 
The present is in fact eternal, otherwise we would be existing in either the past or the future.

Can you recall a time when it wasn't now? It's now right now as far as I can tell.
 
Sounds to me like people are over-complicating it. Ofcourse there's a past - anything that isn't "now" is the past. How can you explain all your memories otherwise - you can hardly call them the present as well!

I agree with RobMiller here.

-RaZ
 
for me this is simple, the present cant be felt all the time, as we are to preoccupied, but in the moment when you catch yourself thinking and very conscious of time and space, that is the present. people who meditate will know this feeling. for how long it lasts is different for all individuals and cant be measured.





rotters
 
rotters said:
for how long it lasts is different for all individuals and cant be measured.

rotters
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No it isn't, it's always the present. I agree that It can't be measured, you could certainly start a stopwatch but you'd die trying.
 
The are suppositions that there is no such thing as time - in that there is no such thing as either the past or the future. They are just both conceptual ideas mankind has come up with to cope with the fact that we are always in the present but constantly changing. Try to imagine that there is no past as such, and there is no future. We are in a constant state of changing existance, but there is just now.

If you think about it a little, you can actually get your head around it and see that "time" is just an abstract idea that we created because it's easier than thinking of just an ever-changing "now".

Heh, who needs drugs when reality can be trippy?

:D
 
Ever heard of determinism?

The universe is already pre-determined and the future already is set, our choices already made.
 
robmiller said:
The present doesn't exist, it's just a convenient attempt at not bending people's minds.

The change from past to present is instantaneous.
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isn't that a contradiction?

if present doesn't exist, how can the change from past to present being instant? :confused:
 
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