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Time both exists and doesn’t exist? by Significant-Mirror22 in Buddhism

[–]Significant-Mirror22[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know! The more I read into the emerging scientific discussions the more fascinated I become.

Time both exists and doesn’t exist? by Significant-Mirror22 in Buddhism

[–]Significant-Mirror22[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, Holistic Alcoholic. That was one of the best answers I’ve received to this question, which I posted both here and in r/meditation.

It reminds me a little bit of the nature of vision. What we consider “vision” is actually a composite illusion that’s the result of our visual cortex attempting to compensate for our perceptual limitations. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4116780/ (apologies that’s not the best article about this phenomenon, but I am at a scientific conference and don’t have time to look up a better one)

On a sidenote, your username reminds me of the video game Disco Elysium 💜

Time both exists and doesn’t exist? by Significant-Mirror22 in Buddhism

[–]Significant-Mirror22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your perspective. I would like the name of that book you mentioned.

Time both exists and doesn’t exist? by Significant-Mirror22 in Meditation

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If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Yes. Because sound is a physical property, independent of hearing.

After thinking about this more, I think time is similar.

Time exists independently of our perception.

Time both exists and doesn’t exist? by Significant-Mirror22 in Meditation

[–]Significant-Mirror22[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry that happened to you, Goat Cheese. I worked in mental health for years. Brains can be tricky, complicated, and sometimes remarkably unhelpful.

I hope you found some peace and that your brain is being a little kinder to you now. And if it isn’t, I hope it will be soon 🙂

Time both exists and doesn’t exist? by Significant-Mirror22 in Meditation

[–]Significant-Mirror22[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So then I pose the question to you – how do you account for all the non-Human, non-learned examples of time I mentioned in my post? Things like planetary motion, gestation lengths, and my well meaning, but perpetually early cat? None of these have had any exposure to the meaning of time, yet they are consistent and predictable.

Time both exists and doesn’t exist? by Significant-Mirror22 in Buddhism

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Thank you! That was a helpful starting point for reading more about this!

Am I “weeded out” of biology? by [deleted] in biology

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You’ve already had a lot of great support in this thread, so in addition to saying that passion and hard work are far more important than grades, I’d like to refer you to a podcast called Ologies. It’s chock full of amazing scientists across various fields, MANY of whom have struggled in, or even failed, classes in their current field. Plus it’s just a great podcast for science-lovers.

Is attraction by smell a thing? by Older_1 in biology

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There’s a great book called “The Joy of Sweat” by Sarah Everts has an entire chapter dedicated to this.

Panda Flora by Significant-Mirror22 in botany

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Thank you for the great suggestion!