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I likw Big Think, but I wish the articles were more substantial, not just advertisements for books. So this post on the nature of time fails to satisfy. Fortunately there is ample literature on the reality of time. If you have a lot, then you'd want to work on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Hawking's Brief History. But if you have less, and still want to be mystified, your best bet is J.E. McTaggart's The Unreality of Time. Time may be a necessary condition for the possibility of perception, as Kant would say, but it is at the same time a subjective experience.

 

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