tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post3178296351622835903..comments2024-03-28T13:23:50.623-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: The flow of timeAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-11675954805869276632013-04-12T19:51:48.069-05:002013-04-12T19:51:48.069-05:00Here I go again. I'm about to start another w...Here I go again. I'm about to start another weekend which in internal time will last about four seconds.Dagmara Lizlovshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14744785407281199347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-24388107429643216302013-04-12T07:18:12.525-05:002013-04-12T07:18:12.525-05:00I'm not sure I know how to make sense of the c...I'm not sure I know how to make sense of the claim that there is external time on the B-theory. If you wouldn't mind, can you either clarify that, or direct me to somewhere where you have (or another has) clarified that?<br /><br />Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-19767564437648791882013-04-11T16:02:28.457-05:002013-04-11T16:02:28.457-05:00Michael:
Maybe, but if so then Williams is complet...Michael:<br />Maybe, but if so then Williams is completely off-base in thinking this has to do with a perception of time being like a river. For when a river flows past us, water doesn't come in and out of being.<br />Dagmara:<br />Aye.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-62841812123169819592013-04-11T15:52:16.757-05:002013-04-11T15:52:16.757-05:00I honestly don't think that A-theorists who sp...I honestly don't think that A-theorists who speak of the "flow of time" are referring to the subjective feeling that things take a "long time" or the difference between one's inertial reference frame and that of some larger community (which implies that we are actually relativizing our sense of the "flow" to what's happening with others, and I don't think that's what anyone is doing; at least not consciously). It seems to me that "flow of time" was always meant as "temporal becoming". We perceive that things come into being and then go out of being; that events transpire from their beginnings to their climaxes, and then pass out of existence. <br /><br />Perhaps "flow" is an ill-chosen word, if it conjures up the need for "speed of flow", since that's just categorically different from what A-theorists are talking about. Or so it seems to me.Michael Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05279261871735286117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-81773885237244022112013-04-10T20:59:58.953-05:002013-04-10T20:59:58.953-05:00"we should distinguish the internal time of a..."we should distinguish the internal time of an individual from something like the generally shared external time of the human community. "<br /><br />Regarding internal time. I think that the rate of flow of internal time is some form of non-linear function. When you're a kid time flows so terribly slow. Remember how long it took to get to Christmas from the first day in December when you were a kid. That was forever. Remember when you were out for June, July, August on summer vacation from school? That time seemed forever. As you got older internal time sped up. Then with each successive decade like on some logarithmic scale, time speeds up. The acceleration begins when you hit 30, and accelerates logarithmically thereafter. This is most noticeable when you hit 40. Once you get past 50, it is really bad. There is the strange variation. Time during the work day slows down, unless there is deadline, and speeds up over the weekend. Then again, if you are a deer hunter sitting in your stand waiting for that buck to show up, time will actually stop.Dagmara Lizlovshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14744785407281199347noreply@blogger.com