Is time a human construct?

>>8585255
No more than the z axis. It has a human name so we can talk about it but it exists independent of us, just like the tree in the forest which does make a noise when it falls but only if there is air.

>>8585255
Of course not.

>>8585255
Yes time is just a perception just like seeing and hearing and so the way you experience time can be altered by dreaming or consuming psychedelic drugs.

Yes and no. It's something like colours.
Space and time are only categories within our minds.
They are absolute, pre-empirical and the pure forms of our sensorial perception of reality: our mind has these two standard forms where representations are presented to us. We can't say this is how the external world actually looks like.


What exists in reality is only a relation between different material objects, which we perceive as space and time. Space and time are not something that exists in the physical world, they're not substances, only matter substantially exists

>>8585255
My understanding is yes. All that truly exists is chemical reactions that are happening at different rates. Time is a tool we have created to measure and predict these reactions.

Please correct my if I am wrong.

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>>8585255
Yes, time is completely anthropogenic. It's a quality product. No other quantity is manufactured to such a level of precision. While the current standard time machine offers an accuracy of 2e-13 (at 9.192631770e9 Hz) upcoming contraptions will provide an unprecedented 3e-18 (at 1e14 .. 1e15 Hz).

Like space, time has no physical (causal) existence, it is purely virtual. Imagine the proverbial wheel of life leaves a track in the sand. Then someone comes and pointing at the track says 'see, that's time'. The wheel doesn't care.

>>8585286
Best answer itt

>>8585342
But time is the history of where the wheel is, an accurate description, therefore it exists because it existed at a brief moment, time exists in any practical sense

fuck off, time is time, are you going to say that all the other concepts in physics and numbers and all of math are just human constructs too? time is a physically measurable phenomenon, it's not completely made up. if you want to get all philosophical about it that's just some "how can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real"-tier bullshit

>>8585357
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant

>>8585255
No. Anyone who says otherwise is a moron. Reguardless of how slowly or quickly we experience time on an individual level, there is still an order of events in the universe. You cant have events happen before or after eachother without time. You dont get wet when you go outside because it rained yesterday.

>>8585255
Define properly what you mean by a "construct"
There are some cunty philosophers who love "deconstructing " shit and are nothing more than some lucubrative lil' shits