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[Russ Maughan]

Let's start off by asking ourselves how long the instant "now" seems to you now. The shorter it is the higher your mental resolution. If it is short enough, you can share the experience as one half of your brain watches the other half of your existance. (or an imaginary you watches an imaginary imagination). As a being composed of energy consoled by a biological machine we have certain limitations. "Time contains all points in space and space contains all points in time" explains why we percieve yesterday today but what about tomarrow today? It should be possible. It also supports fate. But fate can be changed if you are fast enough to resolve enough truthes. Facts help even more but beware the Jezabels of knollege. If you can imagine a storm across the horizon, lightning falling like rain, you begin to understand speach and how the right sentence can change fate. (or create a magic spell). Any ideas on seeing the future further than extrapolation of a few moments?

[chubtoad]

One idea ive read about that explains why we can't see the future is that time has a direction attached to it. And this direction must be consistand with a law of thermodynamics that entropy(a measure of disorder in a system) always increases. Some have speculated that if the universe began to collapse then the direction of time would flip.

[Russ Maughan]

Thank you for your consideration. I'm leaning in the same direction. I think space only contains all points in time "up to" now.

[Lazarus Long]

You folks really need to read the discussion "Who is Peter Lynd".

and

Does Time exist?

[Russ Maughan]

Thanks Laz, been there done that. 1963 I was 7 years old. I asked the teacher why the word Time wasn't in the dictionary. She replied "Some words we all know the meaning to." I replied "That's silly, it's the distance between now and now." She looked at me like she wanted to call the president on that hotline. So I shrugged and went playfully back to lurking.