Bruno Marchal wrote: > Le 09-août-06, à 12:46, 1Z a écrit : > > > Timeless universe, universes where everything that can exist > > does exist, are not well founded empirically. > > So we should understand that you would criticize any notion, sometimes > brought by physicists, of "block-universe".
Yes, I certainly would! It is unable to explain the subjective passage of time. Dismissing the subjective sensation of the passge of time as "merely subjective" or "illusional" is a surreptitious appeal to dualism and therefore un-physicalistic! >Time would be a primitive? > What about relativist notion of space-time? What indeed ? It means time is local, not that time is non-existent. > BTW I agree with most of your post (of 09/08/2006) to David. At the > same time I'm astonished that you seem attracted by the idea of making > time a primitive one. I know that some respectable physicists do that > (Prigogine, Bohm in some sense), but many physicist does not (Einstein, > ...). The ones that do can expalain my subjective sensation of time, the ones that don't, can't. > Of course it is more easy to explain that consciousness supervene on > number relations to someone who already accept consciousness could > supervene to a block-universe than to someone who want time (or > consciousness, or first person notion) to be primitive. Indeed. > Of course I believe that once we assume the comp hyp. there is no more > choice in the matter. A computation (as opposed to an algorithm) is a process taking place in time. Not many people would say "yes" to a doctor who wanted to make a static image of their brain and store it in a filing cabinet. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
