doboprobodyne<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@maxleibman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>maxleibman</span></a></span> </p><p>No worries.</p><p>Illusion is a metaphor.</p><p>Just like how we think we pass through time, rather than being in all the moments separately; before, now, in the future - time as we perceive it exists because the moments are perceived in sequence.</p><p>But like the use of the word "illusion", language is a clumsy tool, and it's hard to lay some things out in words.</p><p>Well, also its possible the folks actually thought they meant illusion, in which case you're right and they're silly. Send em to me for reducation.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/NationalPhysicsLaboratory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalPhysicsLaboratory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/CrystalLatticeAtomicClock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrystalLatticeAtomicClock</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybernetics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/NorbertWeiner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorbertWeiner</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Stoics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stoics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Stoic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stoic</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Physiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Physiology</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neuroscience</span></a></p>