My Theory of Everything – Putting Time in Motion and Worlds in Brains

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Summary
It all started with collecting clocks. With looking at them and wondering why I couldn't hold 1 second in one hand and 2 seconds in the other and perceive their different sizes -- just like measures of lengths and weights. With looking at my own hands in front of me and wondering where they were going in time. I can only see them move in space in front of me now.
It got me to thinking that maybe reality is no more or less than exactly as I am seeing it; physical things moving in 3 dimensional space, with properties like mass and length. That I, myself, am in my brain, experiencing a virtual world of past memories of my perceptions of reality beyond me. That it's these virtual memories that have the property of duration, and that times are just arbitrary repeating durations we use to measure other durations. So why can't I sense and perceive time ? Because it's a measure of memory; of this virtual reality I live in within what I experience as this my world in mind, emerging in form (in form in motion, information) here within the real and physical 3 dimensional motions of my brain. So my "experience" is not of physical reality directly; I experience my documentary of it.
In giving this talk I intend to explain and expand on the above, and the nature of our world in mind a little further, and then see how viewing reality through the lens of this theory might help to solve mysteries, remove barriers, change our perspectives and alter our values in life, and in so doing, offer opportunity for positive progress in the areas of
- Quantum and Classical Physics
- Humanity's ability to live sustainably on planet Earth
- Our philosophical, religious and theological quest to understand the subjects of our self and our emotions.
Bio
Martin met a family friend in England one Christmas, Dennis Smout, who in response to his discomfort suggested "well maybe this moment is not in time, but rather time is in this moment". This launched him on his journey with time.

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