In the diagram above, the past is everything to the left of the O, the future is everything to the right of the O, and the present is the O itself. Now, I think that the O is constantly moving to the right on the timeline. Thus, we are always living in the present.
Is time in our universe just a single line, or are there multiple overlapping lines?
It sounded like you were describing free choice in your post though...
It wasn't just fate...
I mean, human actions are decisions made by our higher consciousness. They weren't predetermined from day one.
think everyone already knows that though...Hasn't that been uderstood by all of mankind since the beginning?
Ok, so the question I pose now is, does time flow in such a way that if the events in the past were to change, would everything after that change as well? Is time in our universe just a single line, or are there multiple overlapping lines? What do you guys think and why?
I do not have a definite answer to that mainly because of quantum mechanics...but if I had to choose one, I would go with the straight line.
I do however think that the future is predetermined. I think that the past affects the present. Since the present is slowly becoming the past, the past also affects the future.
I think that the past affects the present.
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Is time in our universe just a single line, or are there multiple overlapping lines?
I do not have a definite answer to that mainly because of quantum mechanics...but if I had to choose one, I would go with the straight line.
Yes if we had to chose one, it would be free choice. But our decisions are not chosen, they are dictated by the past. In other words, humans perform the decisions based on past experience, but they are only reacting to the universe.
In a way, past, present and future are the same thing, but we are talking relative time...
2. Human decisions result in processes.
Or, are human decisions not part of any process, but independent. "Raise my hand off the table", as I have just done, I thought about doing. Did I think about that for the first time, or was that just part of the process to create beings such as myself that could use such an action to describe how or if decisions are being made.
NOTE: I am not a philosopher in the classic sense, but a follower of science... for that, I am inexperienced as a philosopher
threewood14 wrote:I think the movie, "The Time Machine," pretty much sums up what I believe. Not that I disagree with you bennisimus, but all sorts of weird things would happen if one traveled back in time.
threewood14 wrote:I think the line going to the left shuld still be there even though it wont be used. ITs good to know that the world wasnt born yesterday if you know what I mean. But I do agree with you that only the future matters. Im just saying put in the past so we do not confuse whether the past exists or not.
The past only exits in History books and in our memories.
how can you believe in a movie?? that is just hollywood ... once time has gone by there is no way to go backwards. There are theories, but they are only theories. No one has proven it.
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I do not believe entirely in that movie. I think the writer however got most of the concepts of time correct. I didn't watch the movie and believe it, I had my own beliefs about time and this movie showed them in a blunt way.
Do you think that time can change? Do you think that we could go back in time and change what might happen in the future even though there is no evidence to prove it!
threewood14 wrote:. I think that time is unchangable.
threewood14 wrote:people cannot predict the future. i tihnk they guess based on their memory and come to their most logical conclusion
threewood14 wrote:people cannot predict the future with absolute certainty.
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