(June 18, 2023 at 9:54 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: In my video explaining why I don't believe in afterlife, I used, among other arguments, one argument which I came up with myself: "If humans have souls, how it is that humans who have been unconscious for a long period of time have no idea how much time has passed?".
Andreas Alcor wrote a response to my video. He wrote that he thinks that my argument is an equivocation fallacy, that I am confusing two meanings of the word "time", one is Ancient Greek "χρονος" and one is Ancient Greek "καιρος". I tried looking up those words in a dictionary, but I still fail to understand his response. The only thing I found is that "καιρος" means "weather" in Modern Greek, but that's obviously irrelevant. So, I asked a question about the difference between those two Ancient Greek words on Latin Language StackExchange (in that question, I also posted exactly what I said in the video and what Andreas Alcor wrote in response).
So, what do you think?
χρονος is passing time. As you live your life, time goes by and you get older.
καιρος is the opportune moment. If you wrote "now is the time to strike" in Greek, you'd use καιρος.
I'm not sure why Mr. Alcor said what he did.
I think that Bergson's definitions of duration (la durée) would be more relevant here. He contrasted two types of time: what we might clock time vs. experienced time. We know that clock time goes by consistently and regularly. We might call it objective time. Then there is also time as we experience it, which feels different. Time slows down while you're in the dentist's chair or in a train that has stopped between stations. It flies by when you're having fun. It may seem to stop if you're in bed with someone nice or otherwise fully engaged emotionally -- a "flow state."
So this may be applicable to the soul question. The individual's perception of time stops while he's asleep or unconscious, but clock time marches on.
