Brent Meeker: > 1Z wrote: > > > > 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! > > I don't see that problem. In the block universe each subject is modelled > as > having different states at different times and hence subjectively > experiences the passage of time. > > Brent Meeker
Exactly! See my other post. Being of an evolving structure completely defined by state transitions makes it amenable to the treatment by the concept of time, but does not reify time in any part of the structure...it's intrinsic to its operation. Then, to those entities inside, observing and evolving along with the structure/part of it 'what it is like' qualia of time I dont think is a property of the qualia per se, but the rate/depth to which they are analysed. A high novelty environment means faster/more brain process, time apparently goes slowly (eg during an accident). In a low novelty environment the brain analysis rate/depth drops. Time appears to go more quickly. Cheers Colin Hales --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
