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Would we still exist if time no longer exists?

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Xuan12 · 31-35, M
Time is fundamental to the way our world works and how we experience it. If time stopped existing, likely everything else would go with it, so no, I don't think we would still exist if time didn't exist.
Xuan12 · 31-35, M
Just to follow up, some things to think about. If time stopped existing, everything would become inert, including our own bodies. Even if the material somehow survived the loss of time, there would be no activity, no actions, nothing happening. So even if the matter persisted, it would basically just be a statue, not a person, no thoughts, no experiences, nothing. It's also possible that the material might not become inert, but start ignoring the normal rules, chemical reactions in your body would become chaotic, happening at different rates, going forward or backward, the biology of life as we know it would be impossible. But, even if you don't become inert, or a chemical meltdown, you'd still lose a fundamental precept of the human psychology, the passage of time and causality based on it. We organize our entire world views on time and it's passage, taking that away would render the human mind powerless, and quite probably induce insanity. So even if we didn't stop existing, become inert, or meltdown, we'd still have lost a core tenet of being human. I really can't think of any way to slice the issue in which human life as we know it continues.
adhane05 · 31-35, M
There is so much to think about, haha.