Bertrand Russell observed that our sense of time is not of isolated "events" but of small intervals which by overlapping provide a sequence and by having invoking memories provide a direction. This comports with the fact that the brain is a kind of amalgam of different modules. It can be shown experimentally that your brain combines auditory and visual sensations while correcting for the longer signal processing time required by the visual. So your brain is constructing your impression of the world not only in space but in time also. Brent On 11/28/2018 1:03 PM, Mike Stay wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 1:47 PM Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
That's probably my preferred view, but there are problems reconciling it with everyday experience. It would mean that all ages t of (say) me are living their lives equally, in some sense of equally.
But how does that explain the experience we have of living our lives in the order of the real numbers, and the fact that it keeps getting later? A too-cute answer is, "Because the arrow of time points in the direction of increasing entropy." More carefully, how could you distinguish the experience of living the events out of order from living them in order, or from living them simultaneously? All you have is the state of your brain at that given point in time.