[skinney6]

Past and future is a trick our mind plays on us. We collect past and future "moments" and believe them to have reality. As we collect these moments the illusion of a timeline emerges. Notice when your body tenses and or emotions and feelings trigger when you are just having thoughts about the past or the future. Why react to thoughts? The mind uses uncomfortable feelings to keep our attention. To break free you just have to sit with all the feelings and accept. Now is all there is.

[galgot]

Yes ! :) shamelessly quoting myself : "My favorite theory about Space and time is the one from Don Hoffman. To summarize, space and time are parts of our interface to interact with other conscious agents , just like our senses of smell, vision, sound. But it is just that, an interface, created by millions years of evolution, and does not shows the true nature of reality, which could be completely incomprehensible to us. Like electricity is incomprehensible to a cat, evolution, which is very power thrifty, provided cats just enough effectives ways to survive and reproduce the way cats do. Same for us. this is very summarized, his ideas goes much farther, for him the base of true reality could be consciousness : https://youtu.be/oadgHhdgRkI and https://youtu.be/ds-7sMfJDUw "

[skinney6]

I just watched his vid the other day on Big Think; very interesting for sure! I can see how that would apply here too.

[orlp]

How do you justify prison sentences for crimes in the past in this framework mental framework?

[skinney6]

We have a memory, but "the past" doesn't exist in it's own right. It's just thoughts and images we are experiencing now, in this moment.