In a way, the future doesn't exist until you literally create it, via desires/intentions/aversions/debts that create a visceral current sense of it. This is not figurative. You can literally stop "making" time in this wealth-creation sense by killing yourself.
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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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