Fritz Griffith wrote: >>Again: nothing links two observer moments. All you are and will ever be is >>this very idea.(James Higgo) > >That is a pretty vague statement, but it sounds like we are generally coming >to the same conclusion. I would say that because all that needs to exist is >a single observer moment, all I am and ever will be is that single moment.
I'm not sure I understand your statement. Even if you take the word "moment" as some primitive, I don't figure out what you mean by "single moment". It seems you want put memories in that moment. Memories by whom and of what ? A finite set of memories or an infinite set ? Are you saying there is a generic 'moment' from which all the others appear, But then why and in which way ? How would you link your single observer-moment and the everything idea or the plenitude idea? ok, you answer that in another post: >Yes, everything possible did happen - but none of it is linked in any way. >Just because another event COULD logically follow from a different one, >doesn't mean it does. It just simply isn't necessary, for reasons I gave in >my original post. Hume said that a long time ago, about a putative 'real causality'. But if you do that again for a platonist kind of 'super-reality', then if your subjective single moment has *any* power of explanation, the everything idea get disconnected from it and looses its power of explanation. This will lead to some form of dualism, or I misunderstand you completely. >Yes, it is easy to define the world in such a way. But what I am saying is >that all past moments simply aren't necessary as actual reality - they can >simply exist as thoughts. This might seem to make things more complicated >than necessary, but in reality it makes things much more simple because time >is no longer a factor. I agree, although I'm not sure we share the meaning of these words. Don't forget to tell us what a thought is and what a thought is about. If you take 'moment' and 'thought' as primitives, give us some first principles that these primitives should obey. Bruno
