Can the Present ever be seen?
- HZY
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Can the Present ever be seen?
- Atreyu
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Re: Can the Present ever be seen?
As far as "precisely" defining "now", I don't think it can be done more than what it already is as a concept. We have an idea of what "now" is, but what we say it is, it clearly is not. Normally, we say "now" is what we are currently perceiving and experiencing. But in reality what we are perceiving is the very recent past, as it takes a fraction of a second for our perceptive and cognitive apparatuses to process the incoming stimuli into a coherent picture of the world.
So no, under normal conditions the present can never be seen.
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Re: Can the Present ever be seen?
Blink and you missed it.
- HZY
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Re: Can the Present ever be seen?
Wait, when did you say it happened again?Theophane wrote:Yes, you're looking at it ... right ... now!
Blink and you missed it.
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Re: Can the Present ever be seen?
- HZY
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Re: Can the Present ever be seen?
Couldn't PRP be inferred from PAP?Logic_ill wrote:Well the past present can be seen, but never the present present...
- Felix
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Re: Can the Present ever be seen?
I used that excuse on my girlfriend's birthday, she didn't go for it.Logic_ill said: Well the past present can be seen, but never the present present.
So it can be seen under abnormal circumstances... such as?Atreyu said: So no, under normal conditions the present can never be seen.
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