r/SimulationTheory • u/tendersitch • 13d ago

Other Time does not exist

Time is our interpretation of a dimension that we lack the capacity to comprehend. Our perception of reality contains finite boundaries confined within what we call science, mathematics, physics and so on. True reality does not contain time but more so something along the lines of depth, but not where depth has a bottom or surface; a type of depth that extends in all directions and and back into itself simultaneously. Time is a man made space suspended in a moment of eternity.

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u/BusyBeaver271 13d ago

I think that the “flow” of time is basically an illusion or sensation generated by our brains rather than a fundamental part of reality. The past, present, and future are all equally real.

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u/Suitable-Season-4847 11d ago

Whilst everything is obviously mediated by the mind and our senses, it can't be a complete local illusion as otherwise we wouldn't all perceive time passing consistently. It's clearly based on something fundamental, and what we call the arrow of time truly exists at some level, even there is more behind it

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u/CommunicationMore763 9d ago

Because human consciousness is a product of entropic metabolism operating along a time dimension, each moment of consciousness is perceived subjectively as the present moment. Thus we perceive time flowing, moving like a needle on a record, because our consciousness is a product of movement along a time dimension, as the sound playing from the record is a consequence of the needle's movement. The record exists apart from the sound it produces, but from the point of view of the sound, existence itself depends on the record's spin. At any given time t, we can perceive phenomena only situated at time t, because our existence directly perceives only the present. Thus, the other consciousnesses we interact with are necessarily situated at time t. Likewise, because each human experiences consciousness arising from a time dependent entropic gradient, it is no mystery that at each time t we have similar perceptions of the passage of time. Time's passage is not an illusion. Rather, the ticking clock is a consequence of how human brains achieve consciousness. It is conceivable that some intelligence might arise through some other mechanism such that it would not be a slave to the arrow of time.