On 23 January 2014 08:22, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]>wrote:
> > We need the Becoming that is implicit in the "moving flashlight", at > least to give us a window of finite duration in time (and bits/space) to > have a memory of "what I used to be" that can be compared to "what I > experience now". > >> According to JA Wheeler we only need enough duration at any given instant to measure one bit. But in any case, all that is happening in your brain is happening right now. I suspect there is an illusion of an "extended present" being created, one pigeonhole at a time (let me check with Dan Dennett... yes, looks like there is :) The moving flashlight is a second-order time dimension that simply isn't required by our existing theories of physics. That isn't to say some new theory won't require two time dimensions, of course, but I don't know of any that currently do so, or any phenomena that might be better explained with them. And there have even been suggestions that 2 time dimensions would make the universe inhospitable to life, although I think they came from Mad Max Tegmark, so maybe they aren't considered "canonical" ... -- 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.
