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Single Idea 5984

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / c. Idealist time]

Full Idea

I begin to wonder whether time is an extension of the mind itself.

Gist of Idea

Maybe time is an extension of the mind

Source

Augustine (Confessions [c.398], XI.26)

Book Reference

Augustine: 'Confessions', ed/tr. Pine-Coffin,R.S. [Penguin 1961], p.274


A Reaction

The observation that the mind creates a 'specious present' (spreading experience out over a short fraction of second) reinforces this. Personally I like David Marshall's proposal that consciousness is entirely memory, which would deny this idea.