I argue... this weakens but not necessarily destroys the argument that nature is fundamentally digital and continuity an illusion. - Julian Barbour

[T]ime is really an illusion... and motion too... [T]hey are not really there in the external world. They are put into the world by us, in the way we interpret it, and by our brains...

[S]ymbols have no meaning if divorced from the entities that they represent.

[I]n 1898... Henri Poincaré wrote... "On the Measure of Time" and he said... there are two fundamental problems to do with time. One... with the definition of duration... What does it mean to say that a second today is the same... [H]e said there's another issue... [not] so widely recognized. ...[H]ow do you define simultaneity at spatially separated points?