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Originally Posted by LucidDream
1) You may be curious about a lot of things in the moment but if you have no memory how will your remember to continue being curious about them.
Does my memory still allow me to see food in front of me and remember that I was in the process of shoveling it into my mouth, and that if I had food in my mouth, I would remember that I'm eating it and not choke on it or spit it out?
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You will be curious but then you would forget what your curiosity was all about almost as soon as it came on. You would just be in the moment experiencing it.
This imply that time is an illusion.
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2) If you have no memory what are you planning? You can project what you may want to do in the "future" but what will that be based off of. You will have no memory to go off of so planning will be difficult and the plans won't be stored in your memory anyway so the whole exercise would be futile in planning more than a few seconds ahead.
Right. So I choke on my food and die because I didn't remember that I was eating, and instead tried to inhale a breath of air instead of swallowing.
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3) If you sacrifice this moment in time now to consider what may happen 1 year from now you have wasted this moment now and can never get it back.
I never had this moment in the first place.
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When that moment comes it may or may not go exactly how you had planned it(there is almost 0% chance it will go exactly how you planned it). You have simply traded right now for the future and when the future comes you will still experience it right now. But by wasting your time planning/worrying about the future you weren't truly able to experience this moment right now.
This still doesn't show that time is an illusion. It just says that you think I'm wasting my time.
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You don't exist in the past or the future, you exist right now.
How do you know I don't exist in the past or in the future? How do you even know that I exist?
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Time is relative to your existence.
This is different from saying that time is an illusion.
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Once you seize to exist what does time mean to you?
Do things only exist if they exist relative to me?
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If you die on April 19 will you be worried about how many people plan to celebrate Easter the following day?
I'd probably be more worried about how long the guy in the red pajamas is going to keep poking me with a fork. Or that angel next to me playing that stupid harp song for the rest of eternity. But either way, you have not shown how time is just an illusion.