If time is a man-made concept, how else would age be possible?

Question

A lot of people have stated that time doesn't actually exist, but there's something I don't get. If time doesn't exist, how come everything that has a beginning has an end? Basically, how else would we be able to age?

If you plan on saying something about an amount of energy a person has, stop right there. Because humans, after birth, grow up and normally increase in strength, then decrease as they grow older. How do you explain that?

Answer 1

Time is existence. Ask the dead if they have noticed the change in time. From your beginnings to your death, you shall experience life. You can divide it up any way you wish but when it has ended, your sense of time will end with it.

There are events in consecutive order. ( ...or disorder). Once done is done. We cannot un-experience what has transpired. Age is merely deterioration. moving from one stage of accumulated affects to another. Think about what you will expose yourself to. The resulting effect will be with you from then on. (... If there is life after death, then it will be with you longer than you thought.) Therefore make your life a collection of good things. Make your actions sweet.

Answer 2

lol because people are ridiculous and try to sound smart. Or simply do not think things through enough. I see people saying that crap a lot too. Most here have not actually studied philosophy. It's just a section for people to throw around and share their cooky opinions and theories.



You're essentially onto something correct. There would indeed be no way to age without time, in fact, there would be no way for anything to change at all without time! A ton of stuff is debated and discussed by philosophers and scientists regarding the nature of time. However, one thing is pretty much universally agreed upon among all the professional philosophers. Change requires time. No time. No Change. Period. Now, it is theoretically possible to have a "temporal vacuum" which is a period of time in which nothing at all changes. However, it is not possible to have it the other way around, where there is change, but no time.



There is obviously change going on all around you in the world. Just about everything is constantly changing. It is safe to say that time does indeed exist. Now, how does it exist? and what is it's nature? These metaphysical questions about time are being debated by philosophers today.



People seem to have trouble making the distinction between time itself and man made constructions to help us "measure" time which assists in ordering our lives. People think that since clocks, calendars, etc. are purely human constructions, that time itself is merely a human construction and does not exist in an objective way. This is of course laughable if you think about it.

Answer 3

Theoretically it has been supposed that a high level of understanding would "transcend" time.



But for most of us this has mostly novelty appeal.



Dimensional thinking is possible at an order beyond linear functionality, but not everyone can maintain a standard if the world's apparent laws are transgressed.



One argument is that it is purely mental: trans-temporal acts are only possible through visionary acts of personal consciousness ala Buddhism



Another view is that it takes power, a kind of transcendental view that may not be moral, like digging worms



The final view is that it is like keys, but since the keys aren't available, it becomes a difficult contention.



Maybe it can happen gradually with forgetting.



I hope you will take these "cases in point"

Answer 4

Well this does seem to be a popular question doesn't it? The simplest way I can answer your question is to state the time is the distance between two midnights. Time has been set and cannot be changed. We must take this literally that 24 hours go to make up one day, though scientists will argue that the world either slows or speeds up for a fraction of a second this is immaterial.

Answer 5

The idea that time doesn't exist comes from the assumption that an omniscient, objective perspective (not a "point of view"), encompassing all time and space, would make its apparent passage nonsensical. Science often assumes and privileges such a perspective, and it is a useful way to think about some things, but its logic falls apart if you examine it very closely. But from that "perspective" if it existed, your newborn self, your present self, your self on your deathbed, your decomposing corpse, and every stage of you in between, all exist just the same as each other, and from your point of view their separation in "time" would be an illusion.

Answer 6

Time and matter are codependant on each other. Neither can exist independantly of the other. The 24 hour clock is man-made, which gives us a reference to time. But, time is relative to matter and movement. Let's say you were travelling at half the speed of light. Then a friend shines a torch at you. You would think the light would pass you at half the speed of light, but with the law of relativity, the light would still pass you at the speed of light because time slows down the faster you travel. If you were travelling at the speed of light, time would virtually stop.

Answer 7

There is only the present, the moment you exist in. If humans didn't exist, or any creature with a neo-cortex that can freely associate, the only concept would be the present moment as all other animals experience life that way. No past, no future, no concept of passing time, yet they age and die.

Answer 8

Existence is composed of bits of Energy-Space-Time called photons.



Energy, Space & Time have no seprate existance. Collectively they are what existnace is made of.



You could technically say 'Time does not exist' because by itself, Time doesn't exist. But this is a bit silly, because Energy & Space do not exist by themselves either.



Time is an aspect of existance & there's just no way around that.

Answer 9

Time most definitely exists, it is interwoven into space. When you see a chair you look at it in height, length, width and time. it's really hard to get into this without breaking out some physics which isn't my best subject and im sure there are people here who can explain it much better.

Answer 10

you're very smart and that i accept as true with all of your arguments. After combating similar questions (somewhat God's glaring hatred of my homosexuality, the doctrine of Hell, and the doctrine that the Bible is inerrent), i might want to no longer perceive myself as a Christian. I do, even if, nonetheless have an precis perception in God as a results of non-public non secular studies and merely undeniable reasoning to myself. you do not might want to develop into an atheist merely because you do not opt to perceive with a faith. in case you nonetheless be counted on an precis God, you would possibly want to develop right into a deist. They condemn prepared faith yet protect a faith that a God (or pressure, or tremendous dressmaker, the Universe itself) designed the universe. imagine about it your self and choose. An athiest is lack of perception in a god or gods; it truly isn't any longer in common terms a lack of perception in a particular prepared faith.

Answer 11

The measurement of time on Earth - the 24hr clock - is a man made construction but the linea flow of time is universal,,unless your Dr Who in which case its relative......

Answer 12

Rationalization.

Answer 13

Things still go on, things aren't just literally "AM" and "PM"

we say that so we can easily keep track and we called it time.

Answer 14

count the sunrises and sunsets?



clocks and calendars are manmade, time is not.

Answer 15

thats deep