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Originally Posted by devonin

We are constrained by the fact that we percieve things as a series of moments flowing together into a stream of events. You can measure time easily. Set up a camera, film for an hour, sit down and watch the video. You can -see- the movement of time forward from the fixed point you started filming.

No, you've filmed the result of all the changes that occured in that lapse of conceptual time.

Can you hear length? Smell depth? I'd argue that you can -see- time as easily as you can see the width of somthing. Why does it have to be measurable by -all- senses in order to count?

Sound waves are tri-dimensionnal. Molecules which by sticking to your nasal cavity create a signal sent to your brain are tri-dimensionnal. Of course you can't smell the width of a steel bar, but without three dimensions (or at least two), none of our senses work. Time, on the other hand, does not affect any of our senses, and is not tangible. Instruments can't "take" or "pick up a piece of" time and anaylse it.

Anyways, I suggest we stop getting away from the main subject. Clearly, devonin, you understand my point and I don't think neither of us will be able to change each other's mind so let's not waste our time.