We observe the past from the outside, and the future from within. The farther the object of observation, the greater the past we see: many stars in the sky died millions of years ago, yet their light still reaches us. What, then, lies within?
Will acts at the speed of light and thus appears to us as fate due to its continuity. We quickly forget our choices and encounter their fruits later with surprise, as if we never desired them, but everything happened on its own: the idea to build a house seems instantaneous, yet the construction itself may take years — and by the end, the person who wanted the house is gone. The very impulse of desire arises before we even become aware of it, yet it is from within that the future is constructed, like a beam emanating from the present.
We have already lived and chosen our lives — we have already died; we simply haven't caught up yet. And if everything is determined — our joys and sorrows, breakfasts and dinners, memes and hate speech — then where does the determination originate?
#Philosophy #Time #Consciousness
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