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| 8593 | Maybe billions of changeless years have elapsed since my last meal [Shoemaker] |
| Full Idea: If it is possible for there to be changeless intervals of time, then it may seem compatible with my total experience that any number of such intervals, each of them lasting billions of years, should have elapsed since I ate my last meal. | |
| From: Sydney Shoemaker (Time Without Change [1969], p.52) | |
| A reaction: Compare Idea 2792. A nice new sceptical thought! Shoemaker's paper is devoted, successfully I think, to proving that there can indeed by changless intervals of time. |