I don't think it's a matter of when. Can we exist out of time? Can there be a place where there is no birth or death and we're still conscious of our surroundings and senses?
>Does it occur in discrete moments? > Or as a flow?
I believe everything is cyclical. Starts and stops don't exist with respect to time (unless one wears a cheap timex ).
>If the change is occurring at >a pace that is too >small for me to notice >("experience"), then I can't "experience" >it, right? I'm not >convinced that I "experience" time.
You're not conscious of the passage of time, but it has a direct effect on you. If your meaning of experience is based on sensory perceptions then you don't experience it.
Let me ask you this. If you conceived a child yesterday are you experiencing pregnancy? Or just because you don't "feel" the child inside you you don't consider it the actual experience.
>Reaching way back into the dusty >caverns of my memory, I >think I remember from high >school calculus that the whole >point of calculus is to >measure the change that takes >place at a "point" -- >remembering that a "point" has >no space itself and, if >thought of as a point >in time, is instantaneous. >It's a helpful construct, because >since time and space are >made up of an infinite >number of "points," none of >which have any space or >take any time themselves but >all of which added together >make all of time and >all of space, then we >are kind of stuck with >a model that requires instantaneous >change. And if change >has to occur instantaneously, then >change doesn't necessitate time, right?