Help me with this philosophy question!?

Time is a construct of the human mind to explain the fact that things change.

Any really good encounter group will bring you inexorably to the fact that it is always "right now". The design function of the human mind is to continually predict what the next now will be, based on a full record of other nows.

Hence, the illusion of time. We don't think that there is time, we ARE that there is time.

According to Wikipedia "Time is a dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future,and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them" (It's actually a really good article, you should read it).

In any case, some philosophers think that time is a construct of the human mind (Rick explains this well). However if I recall my Relativity Theory correctly, time is just another dimension along with the three spacial dimensions. This means things can get interesting with time when you start studying Relativity. For one, if you start approaching the speed of light, from your point of view time will slow down, and time can also be messed with by a strong enough gravity field.... but that's to complicated to explain here.

I'd check out wikipedia on the subject.

Wow, no small question and in the wrong category.

What we call time is a question answered in philosophy, psychology and physics. Religion (superstition) has nothing useful to say on the subject.

There is a philosophy category!

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time

tīm/

noun

noun: time; plural noun: times

1.

the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.

"travel through space and time"

the progress of time as affecting people and things.

"things were getting better as time passed"

time or an amount of time as reckoned by a conventional standard.

"it's eight o'clock Eastern Standard Time"

the personification of time, typically as an old man with a scythe and hourglass.

noun: Time; noun: Father Time

2.

a point of time as measured in hours and minutes past midnight or noon.

Time is something that nevers ends.

It's when you have to finish your drink, the pub is closing