Stephen, Speaking of parsing correctly, I presume you meant WRITE rather than read? :-)
Anyway glad we agree block time is nonsense. So what's your idea of time that is not "BS", and that is not a "cartoon with many lacuna"? A quick summary please? Edgar On Saturday, January 18, 2014 2:06:04 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > Dear Edgar, > > LOL! You don't parse what I read very well... I have been saying that > block time is a BS idea. Time is not like that at all. I have a model of > time that works great in physics, but not many know of it. BTW, I do > appreciate your concept, but it is a cartoon with many lacuna. It needs a > lot of formalism and polish to even be said to work. > > For one thing, your notion of a computational space makes no sense at all. > Sorry. > > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > > Stephen, > > I agree with your criticism of Bruno's UDA. It has no explanation for > becoming, for anything ever happening. I've also pointed this out. > > However, this is equally true of block time, which you seem to believe in. > In block time there is no convincing way anything can ever actually happen. > > On the other hand my model solves this fundamental problem by positing an > actively computing reality in a present moment of p-time as the fundamental > level of reality. > > Edgar > > > > On Saturday, January 18, 2014 11:54:15 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > Dear Bruno, > > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 17 Jan 2014, at 20:38, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > Dear Bruno, > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 16 Jan 2014, at 04:44, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > Dear LizR, > > But stop and think of the implications of what even Bruno is saying. > *Space > is completely a construction of our minds.* *There is no 3,1 dimensional > Riemannian manifold out there*. We measure events and our minds put those > together into tableaux that we communicate about and agree on, because our > languages, like formal logical system, force the results to obey a set of > implied rules. We formulate explanations, formulate models and look for > rules that the models might obey. Hopefully we can make predictions and > measure something... > > <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,s > > ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
