"Spend time" is metaphorically coherent, but "make time" is used in an incomplete way. We use the phrase to mean zero-sum reallocation of time across activities, or via outsourcing, using $ to reallocate it across people. But there's a sense in which time is created like wealth.
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The argument is that b can actually collapse entirely if you stress information flows, agency, etc. enough. And with b collapsed, a will seem as unreal as angels dancing on a pinhead.
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So even if he does not die, in this universe, subjective time can almost cease to exist if Dent is under sufficiently severe material stress. Time will be close to an abstraction like God for him.
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This has been your irregular random update and outtake from my ongoing thinking about temporality. Please refer all your questions to your friendly neighborhood clock.
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One highly loaded/charged definition of time I've been playing with is: time is change in the NPV of all the pain and pleasure expected by sentient beings.
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