On 1/22/2014 10:33 PM, LizR wrote:
On 23 January 2014 08:22, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]
<mailto:[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 :)
But why "illusion"? If we're taking consciousness as fundamental then we should take the
"extended present" as part of it; and in that case the extension allows them to overlap
and hence provide a time dimension.
If we're not taking consciousness as fundamental then we need to explain the "extended
present".
Brent
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