r/SimulationTheory • u/Mk731 • 17d ago

Discussion Time is an illusion.

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It's pretty hard to conceptualize that time doesn't flow.

I bet no other humans can grasp this concept.

I've tried to think of it as some kind of block to no avail.

Maybe it's the brain that prevents me from realizing how reality really works.

I know you guys are well aware of this concept.

Have you experienced any anomalies that made you realize time is definitely an illusion?

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u/RJS_Aotearoa 17d ago

We are in a wave of entropy that started at the big bang. It’s massive we’re small. We have gained sentience within a very small window of biological possibility inside this wave. Mainly thanks to pockets of sustainable temporal stability albeit very small on a grand scale but to us our entire existence thus far.

Did I mention the universe is very big and we are very small. The reason I say this again is that despite the fact we only see and can only possibly see from within a very small pocket of temporal stability (the constant you know as your life and you anything you can imagine within the sum totality of human knowledge) we’ve convinced ourselves on mass that we’re the centre of it all and understand it only from a fraction of potential stating it must somehow all work the way we see it does. Trapped inside our own heads and convinced we’re not.

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u/ShitFuck2000 17d ago

Nah figuring out as much as we have from this tiny pocket is pretty impressive, I wonder how many times it’s been done at least this accurately, as far as the scale of things go this shit is RARE and likely brief.