>>32869428But then I thought that the past can't be said to exist, but only a copy of the past (even an exact duplicate not really being the same) is able to be brought to the present. Even omnipotence engendering omniscience would not replace this.
But the present can be thought to be an infinitesimally thin boundary between the past and the future, neither of which exist.
Like a Dedekind cut among rational numbers. But this can not be done between states that do not exist. So the present itself can't exist either.
What if the present, past and future don't exist? What exists? The things in the present, but not the present itself.
Like a deleted file on a computer.