Time just does not exist, only moments in different lengths.
Time actually is a dumb ignorant quartz clock.
The past does not exist, and is no where to be encountered , and the future still has to come.
We need more to reach reality and this is a good way to start, with new more natural standards.
How is that not “time”?
Nowhere refers to a spatial location. “Has to come” implies time itself. I’m unsure what your argument is… do you not have a past? What are memories?
The only way to escape temporal existence is death. Of course, your corporeal components continue to act in time, befouling or enriching, depending on POV, the environs of still-living entities. But at least you are unaware of the passage of time from the moment of unconsciousness.
Meanwhile, here you still are, counting moments and days, talking about past and future …
yet denying the existence of that which you discuss.
Why?
Time is merely the measure of relative change. For time to not exist, nothing could ever change at all and the universe itself would not exist. The universe appears to exist, so it can be assumed that time appears to exist.
There are really two types of change. One, absolute, or objective, whereby our perception of a summation of it, or rather, our interpretation of others’ awareness of that change. The actual measurement of it, is not included, since let’s say, we try to determine time in a post modern universe, where, you are the lone survivor.
You find an abandoned watch still running, it shows the hour and minute, but nothing else. You do not have a chronograph to even show the day, month, and even less, the year.
In this peculiar world, the only possible approximated time could be one where other people with watches could concur with your watch. This is objective or external measure of relative change.
The other measure is internal in the sense of being able to visualize time as the change your own appearance goes through, for instance if you have reached the post reflective stage of being able to recognize(here is that word again) your own countenance, at differing points in your life, and come to an awareness of change that way. This latter would be much less grounded in concurrency, because other people’s awareness of you would be beset with problems of diminishing recognition.
The problem with time is, that if it is transmuted to the concept of change, then in essence it is no longer time, as we have come to internalize it, because time MEANS time and CHANGE means change. We have meaning and usage differences, the mean different things, ideas. Therefore, I concur , time does not ‘exist’.
Parmenides even goes as far as to assert that even change is only appearantly so.
There is no past, present or future. All are constructs of your mind.
there is a universe, then there isnt, then there is = universal refresh rate = time, tick-tock.
there is anyway a generality of motion in relative events, so the whole thing rolls along.
just because something isn’t a rock, and you cannot directly observe it [like everything], doesn’t mean it isn’t as real as a rock.