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Saturday, May 14, 2016

THE PHILOCHRON CONSENSUS

I have abandoned the idea of the intangibility of time. Now I think time is objective because we perceive intervals sequentially. The sense of time is the chromnesia (from Greek khronos = time and mnesis = memory).
  
Time, in any frame of reference, is inexorable or absolute in the sense that the succession of moments is continuous and irreversible. Time is unstoppable and unrepeatable. Time is also relative if we consider the speed in what a body or a particle moves.

The OAT (objective abstract time) changes to OFT (objective flowing time).

Elvis Sibilia

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

DIVERSE OPINIONS ABOUT TIME

Time is a physical magnitude that affects all reality, but we do not have a specific sense to perceive intervals. This makes each person makes a different idea about the nature of time. There is no consensus about what time is.

1- Heraclitus of Ephesus (philosopher): becoming flows like a river, is the Being.
2- Parmenides (philosopher): no changes, no time.
3- Isaac Newton (physicist) time is real and absolute.
4- Immanuel Kant (philosopher): time is an a priori form.
5- Albert Einstein (physicist): Time is an illusion and relative.
6- Henri Bergson (philosopher): rejected the mathematical time.
7- Martin Heidegger (philosopher): time is the being-there or dasein, time is temporary.
8- Julian Barbour (physicist): time does not exist.
9- Paul Davies (physicist): defends the unidirectionality or arrow of time.
10- José Ignacio Latorre (physicist): time is a parameter that connects two movements.
11- Lee Smolin (physicist): time is real.
12- Bradford Skow (philosopher): past, present and future coexist in the universe.
13- David Eagleman (neurobiologist): time is invented by the brain.

Summary of these opinions:

1. It is objective (real)
2. It is subjective (ilussion)
3. It is subjective (a priori)
4. It is the becoming-duration duality (real)

Elvis Sibilia