It is only factual. Reality is what is present, to be seen and touched. The past is indeed memory, or history. Artifacts of the past are real enough, but they are not "the past" in the sense of anything relating to causes and effects. The future is unknown, though maybe predictable based on past experience and present trends.
I don't think you understand my point at all---which is that there is no such thing as "spacetime" as a physical plenum of events. There is space (3 dimensions) and time, but time exists only as the present. The fact that we can plot trajectories through time is only an aspect of physics, not evidence that there is a past or a future we can "travel" to.
Consequent to the above (and because the origin is just a tale), there is no Project Looking Glass. Nothing to be seen. Nor any concept of "seeing" it. It is hard enough to "see" the present.
It is only factual. Reality is what is present, to be seen and touched. The past is indeed memory, or history. Artifacts of the past are real enough, but they are not "the past" in the sense of anything relating to causes and effects. The future is unknown, though maybe predictable based on past experience and present trends.
I don't think you understand my point at all---which is that there is no such thing as "spacetime" as a physical plenum of events. There is space (3 dimensions) and time, but time exists only as the present. The fact that we can plot trajectories through time is only an aspect of physics, not evidence that there is a past or a future we can "travel" to.
Consequent to the above (and because the origin is just a tale), there is no Project Looking Glass. Nothing to be seen. Nor any concept of "seeing" it. It is hard enough to "see" the present.