Quote (Poluxation @ Mar 4 2011 02:11am)
Maybe rephrase it. The way you state it sounds like you're saying that because we will forget what is happening now, we can't perceive it. And that argument doesn't logically follow.
You've forgotten the exact perception of probably thousands of keystrokes while typing, but you obviously perceived them at the time because you were able to find the correct keys (at least most of the time). You may have a repetitive motion sort of memory, but it is not a distinct memory of each keystroke. Or even when you did make a mistake and were aware enough of it to stop and hit the backspace to fix it, you don't remember the perception of every instance of that. But you definitely perceived them because otherwise you would not have made the correction.
Yeah I see what you mean about the connection between perception and instantaneous points of time. Maybe I used the wrong word? I can try and rephrase it. So let me go back to that first sentence and do it like this.
We cannot ________ something as happening right now.....
So the only other words I can use to try and express myself would be:
Understand
Realize
Comprehend
Do any of those words make the sentence make more sense or is it pretty much the same?