RE: Is the Past Real?
October 15, 2022 at 7:51 pm
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2022 at 7:52 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 15, 2022 at 7:43 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(October 15, 2022 at 6:28 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I have my memories of things past and many photos to verify people, places, and things from the past...near and far.
Not really sure about the reason for questioning the existence of the past. Without events in the past there'd be no now and no future.
Today doesn't erase yesterday. It's not an Etch-A-Sketch world.
From a presentist perspective, your photos and memories are real because they exist in the present. But in many cases the objects in them are not present and therefore not real. The question is to what do those photos and memories actually refer since the referents no longer exist?
How is what is perceived to exist in the present in principle more real than what provided indications of having existed in the past?
both are artifacts of perception, and both are based on information which has been held in abeyance while traveling to you and only arrived to stimulate the perception after a time delay.
