This is a theory of everything site. We have to differentiate ‘everything’ in the observations we make. Everything outside us includes all but the human in our environment. Everything inside is us, including concept of mind, soul, spark of life. This inward view should not be projected outward on observations of our environment. Some have stated their views/observations of the outside world as an illusion, that reality lies within the mind, an inward view with many fallacies. A question for this philosophy, while playing sports, you are struck in the knee with a cricket bat, do you still question the reality of the bat? There are others who promote the ‘everything’ outside view. I am one of them. For me, the environment is very real, the outside view, materialism, what ever you wish to call it. Mixing these two views/lines of thought promotes/projects doubt. It will not matter what is stated, the inward biased views generate doubt, argumentation, and projects confusion. Doubt in the reality of your environment, doubt in ones own self, and doubt in all forms of input information. Discussion is great, but there will be no forward progress if the two views are not distinguished. This is a time forum, so I will state my views of time. I am convinced that time is very real, that within nature time exists as a vector space, and within cosmic expansion, as a MacLaurin Series. Expansion as a function of time is depicted here, http://www.toequest.com/forum/mathematics-articles/427-pure-mathematics-space-time.html more views on TIME and the possibility of time travel are found here, http://www.toequest.com/forum/time-travel/
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