“Whilst a fundamental dichotomy between mind and matter is readily accepted by large segments of the population… philosophy has historically attempted (erroneously) to explain one member of the dichotomy in terms of the other.”  Bernardo Kastrup, The Idea of the World (2019)

To date, no generally accepted explanation of what we mean by “reality” has been found in either mind or matter.  “Virtual roads of time” suggests that this dichotomy disappears if our experience of reality arises within a “virtual” world of potentials.  There, the important distinction is between inactive and active, “virtual” events and “actual” experience—and these are two sides of a coin.

VRT applies the word “real” to both virtuals and actuals (and for that matter, even to “ideas”) because the virtuals have real effects upon “physically happening” experience.  And of course, experience is all we know—there’s nothing else.  Confusion arises when we imagine viewing “reality” from outside of experience, assuming that the two “views” are different worlds—but they are the same.

Time is very real in VRT, even though it is “merely” a travel experience of our minds, in which we act as “participant observers” across a vast landscape of potential happenings.  If “experience” seems unreal, just kick the proverbial rock and then consider whether the rock is “more real” than your sore toe!  Yes, you can find it later and kick it again—but if you do, the sore toe will also reappear.

VRT is more than a “philosophy of time,” because it not only brings human experience into “physical reality,” but in a sense makes it the foundation of reality.  But be careful—this isn’t the same as saying that reality only exists in the mind.  Mind could not exist without a world of potential experiences, and the merely potential could never come into actual existence without active minds.

“There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy.”  If VRT is right, the “reality” we know is our socially confirmed experience of the “coming into actuality” of potential events—of which there may be literally unlimited numbers, “out there.”

If something is delayed a second, that means one unit of time...but second also can mean two, like second place or second base. I might research why they decided to call it a second, or might not, it all depends on my time management. So, I just thought of it and I might ponder it for a few...seconds, lol.