ericj
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Another possibility is that your teacher just isn't very good at her job, and doesn't understand that the application of this philosophy in the book is actually a metaphor for something else.
Haven't read hesse, so, I don't know.
Who was it who said, "Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so."?
Maybe what hesse is saying is that we are nothing but our perception of the world, and our memory and forethought which are extensions of perception. All of these things are so faulty as to be considered infinitely flexible.
You are your experiences, hopes, and fears. Causation is linear but irrelevant - everything happened because it must have happened, so the events in-between don't matter because the present was always unavoidable and always perceivable.
We are essentially machines acting on input, and we cannot control our input. All things in the universe react to external and internal forces and the chain of causation is surely as inevitable as the river.
We are all here today due to everything we have ever experienced, and this was unavoidable.
So, I think, when hesse is saying that time doesn't exist, he's saying it's irrelevant; it isn't worth consideration.
From the science perspective, time isn't tangible and is impossible to define as a 'thing'. But that doesn't even enter into it.
Haven't read hesse, so, I don't know.
Who was it who said, "Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so."?
Maybe what hesse is saying is that we are nothing but our perception of the world, and our memory and forethought which are extensions of perception. All of these things are so faulty as to be considered infinitely flexible.
You are your experiences, hopes, and fears. Causation is linear but irrelevant - everything happened because it must have happened, so the events in-between don't matter because the present was always unavoidable and always perceivable.
We are essentially machines acting on input, and we cannot control our input. All things in the universe react to external and internal forces and the chain of causation is surely as inevitable as the river.
We are all here today due to everything we have ever experienced, and this was unavoidable.
So, I think, when hesse is saying that time doesn't exist, he's saying it's irrelevant; it isn't worth consideration.
From the science perspective, time isn't tangible and is impossible to define as a 'thing'. But that doesn't even enter into it.