Jacques Mallah wrote: > > --- Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There needs to be psychological time in which to > > unravel the history embedded in a single observer > > moment. Once one has psychological time, one may as > > well go the whole hog and have a complete history, > > with an infinite number of observer moments. > > > > Its an Occam thing. Nothing rules out a "Groundhog > > Day" type of effect, where we endlessly keep playing > > back a small piece of history (eg 1 day, or even 10 > > seconds if you like), however I suspect this is > > a more complicated explanation (therefore of smaller > > measure) than just assuming that we live our whole > > lives. > > You were doing fine until that little word "we".
I'm not sure what your point is here. It doesn't seem to relate to your following comment. > Other obsever-moments exist, but there's no reason to > insist that the ones that seem psychologically to be > in our past or future are really "the same person". Identity is based on recognition. If we recognise these other observer-moments as belonging to us, then surely the simplest explanation is that we really did observe them. I grant that it is logically possible for us _not_ to have experienced them - perhaps they were experienced by others, and implanted in our brains by aliens. > > > ===== > - - - - - - - > Jacques Mallah ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Physicist / Many Worlder / Devil's Advocate > "I know what no one else knows" - 'Runaway Train', Soul Asylum > My URL: http://hammer.prohosting.com/~mathmind/ > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Russell Standish Director High Performance Computing Support Unit, Phone 9385 6967 UNSW SYDNEY 2052 Fax 9385 6965 Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Room 2075, Red Centre http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
