> However, I cannot help but feel that consciousness >isn't an instantaneous thing. Vague, I know, but it >does seem to be a process. Only when OM's are linked >together do they make "sense". I think perhaps we >don't need to throw out time; a Many Worlds type >static universe is, perhaps, simpler to implement than >the minds it contains.
I thought about this the other day. How does one express in a timeless existence. This is what I've come up with... Our experiences are best described as frames. Outside of these frames there is no time. What delineates these frames is arbitrary. There can be frames within frames. We use a kind of energy to pass from one frame to the next. Each frame forms a kind of epoch. Our decisions determine whether we cross one frame boundary and which boundary we cross at. So our lives might be described as chains of expression linked at epoch boundaries. Now within each frame, we perceive time. I say we perceive it, but it does not exist. It is simply an expression method for those not ready for anything else. Each time stamp we place on a thought or instant, is a sub-frame. We form little epoch's within major epochs. These are delineated by are attempts to correlate our thoughts with time. Without the intent to correlate conscious experience with time, no temporally classified epoch is formed. We might be forced into a state where external experiences impose temporal partitioning, ie., watching a car go by or, some bodily awareness. But I asert that this is simply the formation of micro-frames or epochs bounded by our brain's ability to partition or sample the experience. For someone standing outside your epoch/frame, they would see your expressions anyway they chose to. They might see you temporally expressing, if they constrain their thoughts to temporal laws. They may simply see all possibilities that lay before you constrained by qualities they choose. The important thing to note is that they make decisions and form frames based on those decisions too. So in observing you, they change as well. If one thinks about the possibilities of this model, it's staggering. This means people could learn to form epochs around other instantiations or entities and completely master the interactions between you and them. An example might be whether you see a car in time not to be run over. In another expression, you are conscious of the car before the moment arrives, even before the day or month arrives... >From a mystic standpoint, this makes sense. From my studies I am told no time exists on the invisible (non-physical world). This bugged me because I could not conceive of how one would express. This model seems to satisfy the issue for me. It also explains experiences I have had in the past. This entails my being conscious in two separate times simultaneously. I've experienced these co-events with separations in months. The most recent was separated by over 20 years. One could say I was simply adequately aware of the memories involving consciousness in two operate times. I cannot argue against this except to say that I doubt it's physically possible for the human brain to record experiences so completely as to support such a phenomenon. Robert W. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
