| Here is the painting of a landscape
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| But the artist who painted that picture says
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| — Something is missing. |
| What is it?
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| It is I myself who was a part of the landscape I painted
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| So he mentally takes a step backward
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| — or 'regresses' -- and paints…
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| …a picture of the artist painting
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| A picture of the landscape
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| And still something is missing. |
| And that
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| Something is still his real self
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| Painting the second picture. |
| So he
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| 'regresses' further and paints a third…
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| …a picture of the artist painting a
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| Picture of the artist painting a
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| Picture of the landscape. |
| And because
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| Something is still missing, he paints a
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| Fourth and fifth picture…
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| …until there is a picture of
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| The artist painting a picture of the
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| Artist painting a picture of the
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| Artist painting a picture of the
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| Artist painting the landscape
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| So infinite regression is--
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| --It is the moment when our artist
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| Having regressed to the point of
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| Infinity, himself becomes a part
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| Of the picture he has painted and
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| Is both the Observer and the observed
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| Well, in that peculiar condition
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| What would he be observing if he were observing
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| Time?
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| He would perceive, Mr. Bonds, that Time is like
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| A freeway with an infinite number of
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| 'lanes'
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| -- all leading from the past
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| Into the future. |
| But not into the
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| Same future. |
| A driver in Lane 'A'
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| May crash, while a driver in Lane 'B'
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| Survives. |
| It follows that a driver
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| By changing lanes, can change his
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| Future
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| Mr. Bonds, i think that time can
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| Fully be understood by an observer
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| With the Godlike gift of infinite
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| Regression
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| Do you believe that?
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| Absolutely! |
| I think it is the only explanation |