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Re: Present
Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <rbalasub@ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
> sankar Jayanarayanan <kartik@eng.auburn.edu> wrote:
>
> > > How can time not be subject to sense perception? Otherwise how will you know
> > > that something such as time exists?
> >
> > Which sense organ perceives time as such? Time is _never_ perceived by _any_
> > sense organ.
>
> Sorry for the slightly unclear statement, however you should have seen it in
> the light of my whole post. I know that there is no organ X which measures
> time. The point was that when the mind is inactive there is no perception of
> time. The perception of time, when there is a perception, is always indirect. I
> beleive I wrote in my post that one does not perceive time in deep sleep. So
> without the mind there is no time. Similarly in a dream do you not feel the
> passing of time? It's only the creation of your mind, since it's not perceived
> by anyone outside your dream. Elementary :-).
While time is a creation of the mind one of its agents is memory,
especially the retrieval of memory. I feel this is one reason why time
perception is not so concrete in early childhood, since a child lives
mainly in the present without recollecting much from the past.
One of the common experiences of dreams is that dream time moves much
faster than time in the world. Many events happen in a short dream sleep
session.
However interestingly dream activities take place in real time. That is
if you take 5 seconds to finish saying a sentence or climb 5 steps
normally, you would take the same time to do it in a dream. I read this
in a dreams FAQ on the web.
The dream time appears to be faster because of some kind of mixing of
memories from distant past and recent past. So here again memory is the
agent of time.
However from the absolute standpoint I suppose memory too would be a
creation of the mind.
> Ramakrishnan.
Suresh.
