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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:27:37 -0400, "Icebound"
wrote: Time, arguably, has length. It is true that memory may be able to operate only on the recent past time-span, and not on the long past time-span as well ....but what is worse: even if it can operate on a long past time-span, that operation may be innacurate. There is no time in a any sense that can be expressed in length. Time is only a word we use for measuring change. Things just exist. Just becaause a rock in space has spun around another rock n times does not imply some "length". You are not older than you were 30 years ago. Your cellular structure has simply changed. |
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-- *** A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. *** - Ariel Durant 1898-1981 wrote in message ... On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:27:37 -0400, "Icebound" wrote: Time, arguably, has length. It is true that memory may be able to operate only on the recent past time-span, and not on the long past time-span as well ....but what is worse: even if it can operate on a long past time-span, that operation may be innacurate. There is no time in a any sense that can be expressed in length. Time is only a word we use for measuring change. Things just exist. Just becaause a rock in space has spun around another rock n times does not imply some "length". You are not older than you were 30 years ago. Your cellular structure has simply changed. Time (sic) to re-requote one of the more astute observations in this sub-thread: "It is certainly longer than it needs to be, and a shorter thread would have been better." :-) |
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