ReligionProf Podcast with Douglas Estes Part 2: Time, Immortality, and Technology
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John MacDonald
Phenomenologically, it would seem that we are only ever "in the moment": (1) experiencing the present, (2) retaining the past as a past-present, (3) and anticipating the future as a future-present. The past and future "seem" to have objective Being because of our mental acts of retaining and anticipating, but it appears that all we are ever in contact with is the present. Because of this, the past may simply be what is gone, and the future is what is nothing at all, and so time travel may only "seem possible." Belief in it may simply be confusing subjective retention and anticipation with objective reality.
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