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The four dimensions out of the 11 dimensions that we find interesting or
that rise to consciousness are three dimensions of space and a
dimension of time. We don't think "what is length made of" or "what
is width made of" but we do ponder 'what is time made of'.
The fact is
that we measure and sense INTERVALS of X,Y,Z and Time. The intervals of
time, seconds, minutes, hours,..., life span are encountered by our
cells at one second per second - that is the rate of time travel
dictated by the arrow of time or the direction off increasing entropy.
As the Buddha says "What higher being makes the grass green" (that would
be me sensing the green-ness and the grass-ness). How fast does the
past or the future happen in memory?
My intuition is that past and
future time are 'tenseless'. But my present moment is also tenseless.
The mind experiences time at one second per second because everyone
around me is looking at the clock on the wall and we all concur that the
second hand moves at a constant rate. That is by convention. Before the
railroad set schedules for moderns, we have no motivation for imagining
that everyone every where was on the same clock.
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