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ception of time either.
Similarly, a person makes a comparison when he sees someone enter
through a door and sit in an armchair in the middle of the room. By the
time this person sits in the armchair, the images of the moment he opened
the door and made his way to the armchair are compiled as bits of infor-

mation in memory. The perception of time takes place when one compares
the man sitting on the armchair with those bits of recalled information.
Briefly, time comes about as a result of comparisons of inform a-
tion stored in the brain. If man had no memory, his brain could not
make such interpretations and therefore, he would never form any per-
ception of time. One determines himself to be thirty years old, only
because he has accumulated in his mind information pertaining to those
thirty years. If his memory did not exist, then he could not think of any
such preceding period and would be experiencing only the single
"moment" in which he was living.

The Scientific Explanation of Timelessness

We can clarify this subject by quoting various scientists' and scholars'
explanations. Regarding the idea of time flowing backwards, François
Jacob, a famous intellectual and Nobel laureate professor of genetics, states
the following in his book Le Jeu des Possibles (The Play of Possibilities):

Films played backwards let us imagine a world in which time flows back-
wards. A world in which cream separates itself from the coffee and jumps
out of the cup to reach the creamer; in which the walls emit light rays that
are collected in a light source instead of radiating out from it; a world in
which a stone leaps up to a man's hand from the water where it was thrown
by the astonishing cooperation of innumerable drops of water surging togeth-
er. Yet, in such a time-reversed world with such opposite features, our brain
p rocesses, and the way our memory compiles information, would
similarly function backwards. The same is true for the past and future,
though the world will appear to us exactly as it does currently. 29
But since our brain is accustomed to a certain sequence of events, the
world does not operate as related above. We assume that time always
flows forward. However, this is a decision reached in the brain and is,

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