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pieces of information.
Renowned physicist Julian Barbour defines time in this way:
Time is nothing but a measure of the changing positions of objects. A
pendulum swings, the hands on a clock advance. 39

In short, time is composed of a few pieces of information hidden as a
memory in the brain; rather, it arises from the comparison of images. If a
person did not have a memory, that person would live only in the present
moment; his brain would not be able to make these interpretations and,
therefore, he would not have any perception of time.

A person's past is
composed of
information given to
her memory. If a
person's memory is
erased, her past is
also erased. The
future is composed of
ideas. Without these
ideas, only the
"present moment" of
experience remains.

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