Time, in common language the description of the 4th dimension, is something required for our daily lives. We must hold a basic understanding of time, in order to use future or past tense when composing sentences. As with most things, this is not actively recognized, as it is not necessary for our every day use.

Nonetheless, time is used, not only as a measurement between what happened, the now, and what will happen, but also for transitions. For instance, every living thing is first born, then grows up, and is bound to at some point, die. This is a way of using our perception of time to describe how the state of something may change.

What we use to help recall the past is memory. In my previous post I gave a brief explanation on memory and how it might not be a reliable tool. However, to actually understand that there is a past, we need memory to tell us what has happened. Without memory, we would not know of the past, and thus it would make it difficult to perceive time.

Without a past, the future would be questioned, too. For without experience, although experience could be said to exist without memory, More >