
Hugh Mellor on Time
Philosophy Bites
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The Relationship Between Time and Action
There's nothing about past, present and future built into time. The only philosophical point is that it's important to realize that what we are reading out into the world is something that is just a relation between us and it. As far as getting things done goes, there is no fundamental direction to space. If you turn on a light bulb, it doesn't light up earlier before you lit it up. That's why the direction of time matters. And therefore, in terms of action, intense terms, we think there is rightly that there's an important difference between later and early.
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