RE: Time
April 20, 2011 at 12:19 am
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2011 at 12:41 am by Emporion.)
(April 14, 2011 at 6:23 pm)Chuck Wrote:(April 14, 2011 at 6:03 pm)Emporion Wrote:(April 12, 2011 at 3:57 am)lilphil1989 Wrote:(April 12, 2011 at 12:06 am)Emporion Wrote: Cute. That is the example of an illsion of being able to manipulate time.
I have about 18 hours in my day.
I have a set amount of work to do each day.
If I do that work quickly, I have lots of time to spend on other things.
If I do that work slowly, I have less time to spend on other things.
Where's the illusion?
Also, still waiting on the demonstration that control of time is logically impossible.
Think about your post in terms of how much energy your using and you will see the illusion.
Examine the need for correction algorithms for atomic clocks in GPS satellites and you will see controlling time is no illusion.
Clock systems record physical time and convert it into data that we use for activities which require the symbolic recording to use as a reference for the intended task.
(April 15, 2011 at 4:39 am)lilphil1989 Wrote:(April 14, 2011 at 6:03 pm)Emporion Wrote: Think about your post in terms of how much energy your using and you will see the illusion.
I'm not claiming that finishing my work early gives some kind of magical extra time out of nowhere.
Energy is irrelevant. If you think that you can equate time and energy like that, you need to take some physics classes.
And even if you could compare the two, if you think that I'd expend the same amount of energy in both cases, you're mistaken. Imagine that my faourite leisure activity is karate. If I complete my work slowly, I spend all day sat at a desk. If I complete it quickly, I spend the remainder of the day doing karate. Do I expend the same amount of energy in both cases? Nope!
What you seem to be doing is misinterpreting the meaning of the phrase "to save time" in order to artificially create a paradox.
Taken literally, phrase "to save time" creates a paradox on its own.
(April 16, 2011 at 1:31 pm)Watson Wrote: I voted Jesus. Aint I a stinker?
Yes you are.
(April 16, 2011 at 1:31 pm)Watson Wrote: Really though, none of these answers are viable to me. What is time, anyway? How does it work? By what goddamn standards are we measuring it and why are those standards applicable at all? Time is just far, far too complex for me to answer this question.
If it's soo complex, then why did you go for "God did it" explanation?
The time we are taking about is the physical time, also represented by our sense of time which I believe is controlled by neurons firing of at a certain rate. Hense, sense of time.
