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Hi, this is another Tendies podcast. My name is Reza Sanjide and today is February 7, 2023. This is my sixth episode. The number sixes was always a great number. I hope this episode will be a great experience for all of us. First, I am sorry for delay. Also, I want to emphasize how important it is for me, the goal of these episodes, and that is to bring philosophy to our everyday life. That's why I call it Philosophy of Life podcast. Maybe you will say, how could philosophical philosophy of time be related to our everyday life. And I understand that you can find the relation between philosophical time and everyday life. But it is important to understand fundamental. If we don't know our ethics and civics, we don't know what to do in a lot of circumstance. Philosophy teach us the fundamental of things and critical thinking. That's why it is for us vital to learn it. In any case, this week is significant for me because I've marked the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, which, despite the passage of time, I still vividly recall, and my son's birthday, which falls exactly to the same day as the Shah regime collapsed and the formation of a new Iranian government. Happy birthday, Sorab. I'm lucky I have you in my life. You are full of joy and love, and I'm so proud of you. The theme of this episode is philosophical time. This is an amazing topic. It changed me in a fundamental way. I changed completely because of what I read in the past few months. So I can say I understand a lot more about time and what that means. I was very excited for this episode. Time is a very interesting subject and relatively easy. That was I thought initially. I was just recently concluded that time is not real and all it is to it. It should have been a very short and interesting episode, and I can add another number to my philosophy podcast. As you can see, I was very immature to my prediction. I'm not anymore in the same opinion I was by starting this episode, which was only 60 days ago. As a matter of fact, this subject's time is quite difficult, This needs a lot of reading, and I need a lot of time in contextual form. This is very funny. I'm trying to explain time, but I need more time to explain it. But at the same time, I don't believe in time. Now, I need more of it. What do I need more? I say to myself. Is that something that affects both material and immaterial things equally? What exactly do we mean when we say time is passing? What is really passing? What is time exactly? Is that something that can be accessed by itself? How much do we understand when we say what time it is? Or another question. Does time exist in absolute nothingness? Let's elaborate here a little bit. I don't mean by saying absolute nothingness vacuum. Here absolute nothingness is in the same, some people call it void, behind absence of everything or non-everything. It is literally behind all the attributes. Let's call it here vacuum. for sake of argument, absolute void. So, does time exist in absolute void? These are few interesting questions regarding philosophical time. Throughout history, philosophers have always seen the concept of time play a crucial role in their argument. The subject was so important to the philosopher that they spent so much time to study it. I've used thought experiments in order to prove or disapprove philosophical ideas to better understand time, and we must do exactly the same way. The journey of this episode was life-changing experiments. In a relatively short time, I changed my opinion 180 degrees. Because of more research I made into this topic, I feel that I don't know a lot about time. I did make amazing experience because of it. Now I am saying for sure that I never should say for sure anything for fact. Because the fact is actually could change. And this is because different perspective view. I was looking to time outside a space which looks very different in essence. Meaning, you can travel in time, seeing things without their boundaries. If your imagination is really good, you can even kill your grandfather in the past, even though you can't even be exist. You can travel into the future, like Back to Future movie, changing effectively fundamentally. which is absolutely not possible by any measurement. Philosophers always think time and space are related and connected. But are they time and space similarly connected? Time and space, in my opinion, are not only related, but it's also inseparable. Space is something we can typically relate it to, but I don't think... It can be exist by itself. And I can say, I already said that time cannot be exist by itself. Let's go back to our absolute void thought experiment and do more research. Can we have any experience in absolute void when we are not even exist? As a matter in fact, nothing can be exist. This is darkness. No light, no object, nothing we can relate it to. And that's why we call it absolute void. So how can it be time measured in that circumstance? In other words, we only can measure time if an action happened to an object. As a result, we have an experience. Only when an action and an object are involved. So when they are both are missing in absolute void, nothing could be happening. Then it is fair to say time is not exist because there is no experience has been created. Therefore, time only happen in space. So the concept of space here referred to everything outside absolute void. Essentially, you can say time is a bunch of our experience that we gather in space. Based on Avicenna-Flyman argument, which it is a thought experiment which help us to understand life and now maybe time. Here is the Avicenna quote. I'm alive because I think. I can also say that I think, therefore, times exist, and my experiences are real to me. Or is it just as good I can prove my experiences are not real because time is not real? So the question should be, is that possible for space or time to exist independently? If we want to prove that time and space are interconnected, we must prove that they can't exist by themselves. And I think we already showed that time cannot exist by itself. Earlier, with our thought experience, we couldn't prove that time exists by itself and cannot be measured in a void. Therefore, we didn't gather any experience. But can we have any experience in a space without time? Think for a moment that everything in existence is locked in one moment, a macro second, and nothing is changing. You sit on the chair next to the window and nothing is moving. No movement whatsoever. You have no thought. But you are there. Everyone else is there. Buildings are there. And sun is there. But there is absolutely no movement. You don't get old. The sunlight does not change. because everything lock in the macro, macro, macro moment. So the question is, do you have any experience in that moment? Therefore, if there is no experience in a space, how can you even prove if there is existence of the space? We only are able to measure things with our experiences. Therefore, time is only possible measurement we have that can prove space's existence. So we have to deal with time and space. So our experiences are building time and space, or vice versa. Space and time are building our experiences. But the key element is here, what is left is our experiences. We are nothing without our experiences, and our experiences are manufacturing us as a whole. Now, is time being real? I would question if my experiences are real. Then yes, time is real. And if my experiences are not real, then you can say time is not real. And we are not real either. You guys know what paradox is. It is a statement that seemingly contradicts to oppose or to common sense. And yet, perhaps both true. Time is one of them. Time is what you think it is. Once Albert Einstein said that the distinguish between past, present, and future is is only subordinate, persistent illusion. We as a human are trying to make sense of things. Therefore, we develop a set of rules that can explain events as they happen. To express our emotion, the idea, we create language and words. We produce art through painting, writing, and music. To express ourselves, we are building a structure design and manifest stories far away from our reach. Our imagination knows no boundaries. Most of recent philosophers are saying that even we did create God and all the religions. We human oddly creatures and this is what distinguish us from everything else. We create phony rules to help us to comprehend our surrounding. Then again, that doesn't imply that they are natural law. On the contrary, they have little to do with natural and fundamental of natural things. We should not confuse ourselves. Once I was told by one of my neighbors that animals destroy his yard. He was so hated by that fact. But the truth is the animal should be angry of what he did because that he was in their homes. He devastated his yard, his environment, the animal environment. The home ownership is in a contract between us. We human and not between us and animal. There is no set of rules we created here. These are the set of rules we created to explain our relationship with each other and not with the nature. With this example, I'm trying to simplify the difference between natural law and all creations. And that's it. That's actually all there is to it. Not related to this subject, but interesting. People... I have been recently talking a lot about AI and chat GPS and Professor Hariri's prediction for the future of mankind. He claims that human knowledge and behavior are hackable. And I have no reason to dispute that. AI and chat GPS breaking many fronts. So what? I can argue that AI or chat GPS will never be able to do one important thing, and that is we, as human experience, which can create feeling, subsequently time, and much more. Time proves that our feelings make us to believe we are existence. Can AI do that? Never can do that. They are using the same words, but they don't know the meaning of it. And then because they are using it, it doesn't mean they are aware of the true meaning of it. So I conclude my time episode here. I apologize for delay of my podcast today. With all the reading, I'm exhausted, but I'm incredibly glad that my audience is growing. I am aware that I have to do a lot more. The subject of upcoming episode is unknown. Therefore, I'm open to any suggestion. You can contact me by email or through my Twitter account at Tandis. Tandis spelled T-A-N-D-I-S. Thank you for listening.