On 2 Sep, 16:58, David Nyman <david.ny...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/2 Flammarion <peterdjo...@yahoo.com>:
>
> >> Well, as well as the question of what constitutes the qualitative
> >> character of such snapshots, one might also wonder about the curious
> >> fact that such 'frozen' capsules nonetheless appear to us as
> >> possessing internal temporal duration and differentiation.
>
> > Easily explained if perceptual data are "timestamped".
>
> Yes, that would appear to be the specification, more or less. What's
> the implementation?
Is that a philosophical question?
>
>
>
> > On 1 Sep, 23:48, David Nyman <david.ny...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 1 Sep, 17:46, Flammarion <peterdjo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >> > time capsules are just what I am talking about. Why would you need
> >> > anythign more for the specious present than a "snapshop" some of
> >> > which is out of date?
>
> >> Well, as well as the question of what constitutes the qualitative
> >> character of such snapshots, one might also wonder about the curious
> >> fact that such 'frozen' capsules nonetheless appear to us as
> >> possessing internal temporal duration and differentiation.
>
> > Easily explained if perceptual data are "timestamped".
>
> >>This seems
> >> to appeal simultaneously to aspects of both flux and block models of
> >> time whilst being entirely consistent with neither.
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