Say I take a spoonful of sugar and stir it into some water. I can choose to impart it with a specific "duration" which I'll call sweetness; but if there's no me or you, or no other humans around to impart duration, then there is no duration given, so no time is created and no space is required, and so there's no sweetness, or water or sugar that is being given duration.
As an extension of this, what or who imparts that duration which constitutes "me"? Is there an entity on another dimension commanding the manifestation of my duration, or is it simply my soul? But if thee is an entity on another "universe" as ANW would say, what constitutes their temporality? What occupies the interval that constitutes continuity with that other dimension? Is it me or is it the inherent "desire" in nothingness to generate duration? I don't even know if the questions are being posed correctly. What all this says to me is that we might think we understand how things operate and that we can hope to someday understand how it all works, yet ultimately we lack the means to perceive, imagine, intuit beyond our bounded cognitive possibilities or understand beyond the metaphors we can confection.
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