Past, present, future is an illusion. There is only present, and the structures that relate them to each other.
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What is time?
One, it is a frame of experience, within which change is experienced.
There is no flow of time, just as there is no objective right.
Our determination of its flow as a forward movement from past to future is a result of our experience of change, and the causal characteristics associated with it, which enables us to attribute properties to the relations between different points in time.
However, this is not inherent to the frame of time itself. Time as a frame of experience does not determine the qualities of its contents, hence it is false to speak of past/present/future, for this is a function of process, which is change and causation; not time, which is structure.
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