Talk:Time/Parmenides

I am confused by the use and capitilization of; mainly the word sole, but also the words spirit and self. Perhaps there is a new convention of avoiding the (religious) implications of the word soul while returning to the concept of individuality implicated in the definition of that same word soul, of perhaps dubious associations. But that is not the only source of confusion here. I wonder what the Quran has to do with Parmenides and his argument that time and motion are an illusion? I also doubt that any of what is said is actually taken from any account of Parmenides himself. But rather, it appears to be ones (meager) interpretation/explanation of what may or may not have been Parmenides argument. In any case I question the validity of it being presented as such regardless of it's historical accuracy.

The definitions provided by dictionary.com of the words sole & soul are as follows:

Sole: adj 1: not divided or shared with others; "they have exclusive use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication" [syn: exclusive, sole(a)] 2: being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky" [syn: lone(a), lonesome(a), only(a), sole(a), solitary(a)]

Soul: n 1: the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life [syn: psyche] The first word of a sentence

Here is a link to the rules of capatilization provided by dictionary.com:

The original article as I have edited it:

Time is no longer a mystery in the Holy Quran. Time is a perception, like any other perception, has no locality anywhere except in the soul of the living being, Humans or otherwise. The soul, the self or the spirit are all referring to what we can call the identity that makes one living person distinguishable from others. Science proved that matter is perceived by the brain, but matter has no physical relation to the brain and the brain itself is matter. our brian translates, what our senses transmit to it; our soul. It is not our eyes that see, nor our ears that hear. A sleeping person sees and hear with the same soul that sees and hears while awake. The soul is the realization of matter though matter may be unreal, such as in a dream. Time is a perception by the soul, but if the soul is unfunctioal, such as in a sleep without dream or death, or pre-birth, time then is inexistant. We perceive two things: Matter and non-matter; physical or tangible and mental or untangible. As we differ in perceiving matter, we differ in perceiving non-matter more. One hour to a 50 year old man, is much shoter than to a three years old.

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