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The concepts we use for time might be different. I think of it as a medium, the means of expressing, work or change. When you say it is finite, it seems to be more of an assertion than a proof. I don’t know the truth of it, but if I assume is is finite, then I get to prove different things with my deductions and observations than if I assume it is not.

Would a small amount of time be a duration wherein little change occurred? Or would it be some arbitrary quantity of a crystal’s vibrations? I think they are experienced very differently. An that experience makes them fundamentally different. I understand the world as change more than as time.

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Auxmos 2y ago

Ill be clear, I’m not a quantum physicist.

I suppose I should have said *as far as I can tell* time is finite.

“As far as I can tell is” is something like “truth that’s pragmatic and applicable.”

There’s plenty of theoretical truth that I have no interest in because it isn’t useful (that doesn’t make it untrue, it just makes it unproductive)

I’m not “assuming” truth is finite. *As far as I can tell* based on my lived, experiential reality, my time is running out 🕰️. That feels finite, and that’s enough for me to treat is as such.

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Medici 2y ago

I am an old man too. And there does appear to be an encroaching limit to the things I can experience, but I don’t call that a limit on time. Nor do I understand it as a limit on change that may or may not continue thereafter. But I am sure there is a limit to my understanding.

Auxmos 2y ago

Im not saying there’s a limit on time.

I’m saying there’s a limit on MY time.

Those are two very different things.

The first is theoretical and generally not useful.

The second is something useful and extremely consequential.

That’s the idea 💡

The finite and the limitations are the key to a life lived conservatively (referencing the law of conservation of energy).

This applies to both that which can be observed and that which cannot be observed.

“The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭16‬:‭6‬ ‭

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