Can we experience past present and future at the same time?

The past and future cannot exist at the same time as the present. Because they cannot exist in the now, as they would now be the present not the past or the future. Existence only exists in the now, not the past or the future.

Is Past Present and Future an illusion?

Albert Einstein once wrote: People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Time, in other words, he said, is an illusion. Many physicists since have shared this view, that true reality is timeless.

Do past and future exist only in the mind?

Augustine’s answer to this riddle is that what we are measuring, when we measure the duration of an event or interval of time, is in the memory. From this he derives the radical conclusion that past and future exist only in the mind.

Are the past and future equally real?

And when we seriously consider the simple but essential concept of “ now we begin to understand that both past and future must be real because they could be your now, which means past, present, and future – are all equally real and all exist. Moreover, they exist all at once. Copyright © MessageToEagle.com – All rights reserved.

Do we perceive events as occurring after each other?

If not, then it seems we perceive both events as present, in which case we must perceive them as simultaneous, and so not as successive after all. There is then a paradox in the notion of perceiving an event as occurring after another, though one that perhaps admits of a straightforward solution.

Is time passing associated with one particular sense?

It is certainly not associated with one particular sense. In fact, it seems odd to say that we see, hear or touch time passing. And indeed, even if all our senses were prevented from functioning for a while, we could still notice the passing of time through the changing pattern of our thought.