Is the future real?

[Crispy]

It all makes sense if you have a copy of max's dictionary

 

[stdPikachu]

OMG are ponies real?

 

[Dillinger4]

Ponies are OMG
OMG are ponies

I am so mystical. Relish in my universal truths divined by my mystical paradoxes.

 

[Dillinger4]

It all makes sense if you have a copy of max's dictionary

I think he rewrites it with every post to fit his brain.

 

[gorski]

I sense some history, here in this thread - but very little future... "read giving the poor fellah a time of day to learn, i.e. grow and change his tune..."

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I think he rewrites it with every post to fit his brain.

Future brain or present brain? And what is the brain?

Would the future exist without the brain. Would the brain exist without the future?

So many questions, so little time.....

 

[Dillinger4]

Don't you understand Paulie? The paradoxical questions in your post are the answer.

 

[i-am-your-idea]

Don't you understand Paulie? The paradoxical questions in your post are the answer.

they are the answer, but they arent' the answer.

 

[Dillinger4]

they are the answer, but they arent' the answer.

 

[bluestreak]

Some futures are more real than others.

Only one past is real.

 

[i-am-your-idea]

Some futures are more real than others.

Only one past is real.

How many futures are there?

Why are humans the point where future becomes the one past?

 

[Dillinger4]

The point are humans past where the future, why?

 

[max_freakout]

Some futures are more real than others.

Only one past is real.

so if there are multiple futures, would you say then that there is no 'the' future, no single definitive one

therefore you can say that 'the future' isn't real

 

[max_freakout]

It all makes sense if you have a copy of max's dictionary

my dictionary is the same as yours

www.dictionary.com

 

[Crispy]

Your dictionary changes from moment to moment, or whenever it suits your latest mystical pronouncement. It's what makes discussions with you so utterly infuriating and pointless.

And I'm doing it now

*fucks off*

 

[Brainaddict]

More word games Max? When are you going to take the drug that enables you to see that your supposedly 'deep' philosophical questions are simply playing around with words in a way that says bugger all about the Universe? If I had such a drug I would put it in the post to you

 

[max_freakout]

see that your deep philosophical questions are simply playing around with words

this is a philosophy forum


what else do we have, besides words (and smilies), to play with?

 

[max_freakout]

Your dictionary changes from moment to moment, or whenever it suits your latest mystical pronouncement. It's what makes discussions with you so utterly infuriating and pointless.

And I'm doing it now

*fucks off*

when i want to know what a word means, i normally use dictionary.com, and you can hold me to that about any post i have ever made

 

[Hi-ASL]

so time only exists if there are humans to experience it?

Sort of. Our concept of time only exists as long as there are humans to experience it. And since since our concept of time is the only such concept we're aware of... yeah.

Our concept of time - the one we most readily recognise and are most comfortable with - is a Newtonian invention: a series of neat, distinct blocks based on number (another human concept). It suffices for most purposes but is flawed in the sense that it measures changing states in a series of little leaps - time appears not to exist, and change not to take place, between the gaps in the numbering system. It's hard to shake off the idea that time (with its neat subdivisions of past, present and future) is something we impose upon the universe in order to measure and make sense of it, but that's precisely because it does make so much sense to us. But it's no more 'real' than any other human concept. Other advanced civilisations in other places may well divide up their worlds in ways that we'd find incomprehensible. For us, time is a useful conceptual tool, but it would be wrong to assume that it's something out there with a separate existence of its own.

 

[Brainaddict]

this is a philosophy forum


what else do we have, besides words (and smilies), to play with?

Yes but some words convey interesting ideas. Yours convey nothing but the fact that you are unable/unwilling to define the terms you use, or unwilling to recognise the ambiguities in them, and this allows you to say anything you want while sounding 'deep' (to yourself and a few others).

I'll let you know when I find the right drug to help you out

 

[gorski]

"Only past is real"? Depends which one...

The official or...?!?

 

[kyser_soze]

The past is max asking is the future real

The future is the distant sound of heads hitting keyboards.

Ceilingcat sees all times:

(sorry, know it's a big file...maybe modz shrink ceilingcat's universe?)

 

[Crispy]

no, you can't has decreece in entropy

 

[cesare]

this is a philosophy forum


what else do we have, besides words (and smilies), to play with?

I suspect that on a philosophy forum people would quite like to discuss original thought.

 

[Poi E]

I don't know about the future, but history sure as hell exists.

 

[max_freakout]

I suspect that on a philosophy forum people would quite like to discuss original thought.

not this one though

 

[cesare]

not this one though

Your thoughts aren't original. In fact, they're a bit well worn.

 

[max_freakout]

I don't know about the future, but history sure as hell exists.

the past seems a lot more real than the future

 

[gorski]

It's the same thing as the future: namely, what exactly is it [gonna be]?

 

[Dillinger4]

Your thoughts aren't original. In fact, they're a bit well worn.

This.