Also I sometimes also think about the nature of the past. It is peculiar, because what exactly is "real"? If we mean by "real" all existing things, then the past is not real, because those things don't exist anymore. The past is nothing but an illusion, if you define real like that.
@Jellal Your derinition of real is rather counter-intuitive. What’s wrong with saying: “Real is that which existed and that which exists.”
@feli I'm just made uncomfortabe by the unreliable nature of our memory. Our memory for a fact doesn't accurately represent the past, so it tells us nothing of what was real in the past. A memory of the past is not the actual past and hence not real
@Jellal But our perception is not reliable either. We can hallucinate or whatever.
Also, does the past only exist as a part of someone's memory? I think that that's counter-intuitive as well.
@feli The past does exist outside of memory, but it's unknowable to us. maybe. idk. i think i need brains to think about this
@Jellal Also, don't our brains need time to process the outside world? When we perceive something, don't we perceive something that happened in the past?
@feli probably. even if we didnt, sound + light needs time to travel to our ears and eyes, so yeah, we're always looking at the past.
but tbh that is assuming the external world exists i suppose which i don't really know for sure anyway