stacked photos
The past, the present, and the future. Take a minute to think about what these are. The past is fixed, right? We can look back on it as if we were looking through a tunnel. The present has no duration; it's an instantaneous experience. The future does not exist yet.
How do you know that the present is moving into the past and that the future is moving to the present? Is there any way you can be confident that you have actually experienced your past? Think about this: what if you had a camera that took a picture of your life 100 times per second, and then you stacked these pictures on top of eachother as they were taken. Except these snapshots aren't standard pictures, but they are translucent and allow you to see the apparent continuity between the thousands and thousands of photos that have been stacked upon eachother. This would you be you looking back at your past. The photo that's being taken right now is your present, and the remaining rolls of film comprise your future.
Though I don't ascribe to the idea, as far as I can tell it's completely possible that there is no passage of time. We only live in one single moment and that's all we ever experience. We think we experience the passage of time because there's this stack of photos we can look back on, but for all we know this stack could be an illusion - memories that seem real and continuous but are an implanted falsehood. Even though this instant appears to flow into the next, that realization could be just the latest photo on your stack.
So think about it.
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