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Old 30-04-2011, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by bojan View Post
OK..
But lets also consider that our perception and "making sense of" is a consequence of external time passing.
Our mind evolved to function in the real world.. not the other way around.
If everything is in our minds, then how come we are all in understanding of such basic things, like "A precedes B". Why there are no disagreements (I am not talking here about chain of events that is happening so fast that sample rate of our equipment or brains can't resolve it)?

It is because if our minds were not evolved ( and therefore were not functioning) in accordance with reality, we would not survive a day

Sequence of events #1:
1) I see bear
2) Bear wants to eat me
3) I run
4) I am not eaten by bear

Sequence of events #2:
1) I run
2) Bear wants to eat me
3) I see bear (too late)
4) I am eaten by bear
Sure.

Does the bear also conceive time ?

Or is he purely instinctive ? Ie: reacts to only events in the present and has no concept of time, (courtesy of evolving in the same environment, under the same rules of natural selection) ?

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