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.
Gist of Idea
Maybe billions of changeless years have elapsed since my last meal
Source
Sydney Shoemaker (Time Without Change [1969], p.52)
Book Reference
Shoemaker,Sydney: 'Identity, Cause and Mind' [OUP 2003], 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.
Related Idea
Idea 2792 It is possible the world came into existence five minutes ago, complete with false memories [Russell]