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Similarly, a person makes a comparison when he sees someone enter-
ing a room through a door and sitting in an armchair in the middle of the
room. By the time this person sits in the armchair, the images related to
the moments he opens the door, walks into the room, and makes his way
to the armchair are 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 information.
In brief, time comes to exist as a result of the comparison made
between some illusions stored in the brain. If man did not have mem-
ory, then his brain would not make such interpretations and therefore
would never have formed the concept of time. The only reason why some-
one determines himself to be thirty years old is because he has accumu-
lated information pertaining to those thirty years in his mind. If his mem-
ory did not exist, then he would not think of the existence of such a pre-
ceding period and he would only experience the single "moment" in which
he lives.

THE SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OF TIMELESSNESS

Let us try to clarify the subject by quoting various scientists' and schol-
ars' explanations of the subject. Regarding the subject of time flowing
backwards, the famous intellectual and Nobel laureate professor of genet-
ics, François Jacob, states the following in his book Le Jeu des Possibles
(The Possible and the Actual):
Films played backwards 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 making the stone possible 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 func-
tioning backwards. The same is true for the past and future and the world
will appear to us exactly as it currently appears. 42

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