Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 2009/1/9 Brent Meeker <[email protected]>: > >>> But in a block universe, where each frame contains all of the >>> information for a particular time, the order is implicit. >> What makes it implicit?... increasing entropy? ...conformance to dynamical >> laws? >> These are things outside the frames. If you assume there is enough inside >> the frames to order them (as a continuum model does by implicit overlap) then >> that is a time order and it's meaningless to talk about shuffling or >> separating >> them (in what spacetime could such operations be carried out?). > > Consider a simulation of an observer watching a falling stone, running > on a digital computer. Does the observer have any way of knowing > whether the simulation is being run serially, in parallel, on how many > and what kinds of physical machines, at what speed, or in what order? > >
Is the observer conscious of a passage to time? Brent --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
