Page 80 - Timelessness and the Reality of Fate

78 TIMELESSNESS AND THE REALITY OF FATE

armchair have been compiled as bits of information in the brain. The per-
ception of time occurs when one compares the man sitting in the armchair
with those bits of stored information.
In brief, time comes to exist as a result of the comparison made
between a number of illusions stored in the brain. If man had not had
memory, his brain would not have made such interpretations and therefore
the perception of time would never have been formed. The reason why one
determines himself to be thirty years old is only because he has accumulat-
ed information pertaining to those thirty years in his mind. If his memory
did not exist, he would not be thinking of the existence of such a preceding
period of time and he would only experience the single "moment" he was
living in.

The Scientific Explanation Of Timelessness
Let us try to clarify the subject by quoting explanations by various sci-
entists and scholars on the subject. Regarding the subject of time flowing
backwards, the famous intellectual and Nobel laureate professor of genetics,
François Jacob, states the following in his book Le Jeu des Possibles (The Pos-
sible and the Actual):
Films played backward, make it possible for us to imagine a world in which
time flows backwards. A world in which milk separates itself from the coffee
and jumps out of the cup to reach the milk-pan; a world in which light rays
are emitted from the walls to be collected in a trap (gravity center) instead of
gushing out from a light source; a world in which a stone slopes to the palm
of a man by the astonishing cooperation of innumerable drops of water mak-
ing it possible for the stone to jump out of water. Yet, in such a world in
which time has such opposite features, the processes of our brain and the
way our memory compiles information, would similarly be functioning
backwards. The same is true for the past and future and the world will
appear to us exactly as it currently appears. 57
Since our brain is accustomed to a certain sequence of events, the
world operates not as it is related above and we assume that time always
flows forward. However, this is a decision reached in the brain and therefore
is completely relative. In reality, we can never know how time flows or even
whether it flows or not. This is an indication of the fact that time is not an
absolute fact but just a sort of perception.
The relativity of time is a fact also verified by the most important