{"id":219334,"date":"2025-08-03T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/times-arrow-is-not-an-illusion"},"modified":"2025-08-03T08:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:08:07","slug":"times-arrow-is-not-an-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/times-arrow-is-not-an-illusion","title":{"rendered":"Time\u2019s arrow is not an illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/times-arrow-is-not-an-illusion.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to conventional wisdom, Einstein\u2019s Theory of Relativity showed that the flow of time is an illusion, and that reality is a fixed block. And philosophers from Augustine to McTaggart have found the idea of time\u2019s passage to be incoherent. However, argues James Sares, the idea that time\u2019s flow is an illusion is itself incoherent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to conventional wisdom, Einstein\u2019s Theory of Relativity showed that the flow of time is an illusion, and that reality is a fixed block. And philosophers from Augustine to McTaggart have found the idea of time\u2019s passage to be incoherent. However, argues James Sares, the idea that time\u2019s flow is an illusion is itself incoherent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}