... and wondering if it's possible to finish a blueberry scone.
The question arose: Is time not an illusion?
At long last, I finished the scone, performed a puppet show to the tune of "Hang on Sloopy"...
... scrounged for the last crumbs of scone, and worrying about the 2-hour limit on my parking spot, took leave of the Metaphysics Café.
AFTERTHOUGHT: Did you notice the chef's hat?
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Wish I could help you with the time question, but I don't know what time is.
Try Derrida's Spurs (click on ``discouraged'' search result).
It's short, printed in English on only one side, bloggable, and about metaphysics being male. (Your general metaphysics introduction is going to make it asexual and so completely incomprehensible.)
For God's sake skip the introduction however.
Think of time as an entropy gradient.
Coffee looks good but that thing on your plate looks like a fried balut.
And who is that puppet, Speed Racer?
That's impressive.
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Happy Day-After-Thanksgivings Day!
BTW, I know what time is and I’m willing to share.
Time is God’s way of making sure everything doesn’t happen at once.
Ha!
Think of time as an entropy gradient.
And Bissage didn't make a nonsense poem out of this?
Time has come today.
Bissage stole my line, so I'll do the poem (well, couplet):
Think of time as an entropy gradient
Designed to confound the homo sapient
What was baked into that scone that made you see life in a sugar packet?
Observationally, time is most definitely not an illusion.
Whether we are reliable narrators as to the reality of our experiences regarding time and sequence (do we 'live' our whole lives in one chunk, but our brains order it in understandable portions?, or other such navel-gazing nonsense) is a different question than the illusory or non-illusory nature of time.
A stomach still full of turkey, and a mind slightly hazed from tryptophan are probably not the right mental or physical states to tackle these questions, however.
Also, vortex kitteh.
(the whole, turkey makes you especially sleepy cause of high levels of tryptophan, has been debunked, but that doesn't mean it's not fun to still trot out that old trope anyway)
Were mushrooms an ingredient in yesterday's green bean casserole?
Do you want to become a law professor version of Mr. Garrison on South Park? Tomorrow will you loudly proclaim your un-gayness?
XWL, Vortex Kitty animated.
From the Hitchhiker's Guide:
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
"Time is the moving image of eternity." Eternity ain't what it used to be. Time was when your puppet and his tree second strut across the stage would have perished without notice or comment. Now, given the technology of the internet and proper maintenance of your site, he will outlive us all.
More about the time question from the other person at the table.
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