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Isn't it weird how it's always now?

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Ray Wonder said:
I can't Dad! It's all your fault!
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I think we've made a real breakthrough here today.
 
Arkos said:
When is then going to be now?
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Then will always be now and now will always be then. As soon as now is now it's then. As soon as then is now it's then. So is it always then? No, because then has to be now to be then, but now is already then now you're looking. Now, if you consider that now is then and then is now and what will be will be and what was was even if what is was will be but now is what was - but only briefly - you realise that Doris Day was right on the fucking money. But only back then. Which she thought was now but was only then now.

In summary: photographs are always of you when you were younger.

You're welcome.
 
Screaming Meat said:
Then will always be now and now will always be then. As soon as now is now it's then. As soon as then is now it's then. So is it always then? No, because then has to be now to be then, but now is already then now you're looking. Now, if you consider that now is then and then is now and what will be will be and what was was what is was will be but now is what was - but only briefly - you realise that Doris Day was right on the fucking money. But only back then. Which she thought was now but was only then now.

In summary: photographs are always of you when you were younger.

You're welcome.
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"Look I look much younger on that pic" "Yes cause you are"
 
Now is like where a ship is in the ocean; the wake of the ship is the past, and what is ahead of the ship is the future. But where the ship is makes the past and future, for they trail from that point of reference.

In that sense, it's always now, and every day is today, because all experience is present experience. We only get caught up in images of before and after that disempower what is just before us, as it is for what it is.
 
Dagobert Duck said:
"Look I look much younger on that pic" "Yes cause you are"
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I had some trouble renewing my passport because the ID photos I took 2 days before were nearly the same as the one on my ID card I took 5 years before.

I nearly told them "That's some Keanu Reeves shit right" but I restrained myself.
 
You're living in the past OP, it takes time for what you see and experience to process in your brain, meanwhile the rest of us have moved on.
 
Aiii said:
If you think that is trippy, just wait until you start thinking about time not actually being linear and how our perception of time is skewed as all hell.
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Yeah what perceive as now isnt even now, we perceive now as I think it's roughly 3 seconds blocks of time, and we're conscious of things half a second behind.

Music wouldn't exist without our weird perception of time. We remember notes from the past and expect notes from the future which creates a continuity, a block of sound that is pleasant to us.
 
RadioJoNES64 said:
Does time even exist?
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If the universe is infinite then there are infinite versions of us at every stage of history doing everything we've ever done, all the time. So maybe time doesn't 'move'. Maybe we just move through space from one version of us to the next logical version of us. if we have a perfect copy of us, brainwaves etc. then how do we know we are us, or them? Maybe time stands still, but if the Universe is infinite we move amongst the infinite versions of ourselves, so my 'state' now is fixed, but my state in another part of an infinite universe is how I would be if time existed, and so I perceive this movement from state to state as time. And there are an infinite amount of 'me' following in my footsteps an infinite amount of times per second.

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Light takes time to travel. Your eye collect light for vision, so you'll only ever see the past, never now.

Touch signals take time to reach you brain. You'll never know you're touching something, only that you've touched it before, but never now.

We can't experience now.
 
My cat is always insisting on everything being right now.

"You want some kitty treats?"
"Neow."

"You want some petting?"
"Neow!"

So, yeah, it's weird that way.
 
The "you on drugs?" and "haha Jaden Smiff" responses to basic philosophical questions on GAF hurt my head. Is it that unaccepted to think about this stuff these days? It's always now, it's never now.
 
The question is a valid one. The perception of time as something flowing into one direction, where we only experience the current moment, is not really explained by physics. This "arrow of time" has likely to do with the fact that the universe is generally moving from a low entropy state to a high entropy state.

Stil, this does not address the subjective perception of time, which does not really match what we know about spacetime. Spacetime is a four-dimensional construct, where every point in time "always" exists. That we perceived it as something that is constantly being destroyed (fading into the past) and created (coming to pass) is likely less a physical reality but more an "illusion" created by our brains which are working in the direction of the arrow of time.
 
So when I posted this, was it now? Or did I post it now?
Edit: But I remember posting it then!
Edit Edit: Now I just posted again, so now?
Edit Edit Edit: WHEN DID I POST THIS!!!!
 
Now is like The Game; the moment you think its Now its then
Just like when you think of The Game, you loose

you all lost the game


is this a stoner/drunk thread?
 
ItIsOkBro said:
If I roll a ball, it very clearly has a past, present, and future.
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Assume the light from the ball reaches whatever gunk in your eyes that sends signals to your brain in 0.3 microseconds, and then that signal takes another 0.3 microseconds (I don't know how long any of this actually takes) for your brain to register it, are you actually seeing the ball "now"?
 
Screaming Meat said:
Assume the light from the ball reaches whatever gunk in your eyes that sends signals to your brain in 0.3 microseconds, and then that signal takes another 0.3 microseconds (I don't know how long any of this actually takes) for your brain to register it, are you actually seeing the ball "now"?
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Oh yea I remember that was covered in a vsauce video. Everything you see is technically in the past I believe he said.
 
Ray Wonder said:
What do you classify as strictly "now". Your mind doesn't process the information around you instantaneously, so when you think about now, you're actually thinking about milliseconds ago.

Also, You don't see anything around you "now", you see the result of light bouncing off of it nanoseconds ago. There is an object in front of you that you will never see during the time it exists, it will always be slightly in the past because of the time the light takes to get to your eyes, and the time it takes your brain to process it..

I would say that the more accurate question would be, "Isn't weird how it's always the past?"
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If TVs can smooth motion out by predicting frames, what if we made software to predict future frames milliseconds ahead to compensate for our brains and eyeballs as we watch through a video feed with google glass or occulus rift?

We'll be able to see what life is truly like living in the now.
 
easterislandhead said:
Oh yea I remember that was covered in a vsauce video. Everything you see is technically in the past I believe he said.
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Light takes 8 minutes to get here from the Sun, yeah? So, if you're watching the last 8 minutes of a sunset, you're not.

PandaShake said:
If TVs can smooth motion out by predicting frames, what if we made software to predict future frames milliseconds ahead to compensate for our brains and eyeballs as we watch through a video feed with google glass or occulus rift?

We'll be able to see what life is truly like living in the now.
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Won't that still take time for your brain to register?
 
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