Stephen, Agreed. I suspect I'd be literally burned at the stake for my scientific heresies by some here if they had a chance!
But I find it strange you'd say "that so far I have not seen anything original in your proposal". Everyone else here condemns me because my ideas are TOO original! My whole book, some of the ideas from which I've presented here, is literally overflowing with ideas original to me you simply won't find anywhere else.... But be that as it may.... I certainly do agree that there was originally a formless void that contained the unactualized possibilities of all possible actualities. That's what I call either 'ontological energy' or 'the generalized quantum vacuum'. It's the only view that makes sense to me and is treated extensively in book... In this view the big bang was an actualization event rather than a creation event. As to block time there are all sorts of demonstrations it's total BS. Take for example its origin. How could an entire fixed completely deterministic structure containing the entire history of the universe from big bang to final end come into being instantly somehow out of time? The block universe assumes that causality is an illusion since the block universe came into existence all at once out of time. So what CAUSED the block universe if causality doesn't exist? What process could have created it in the first place. Whatever process it was we must postulate it was OUTSIDE the universe which is a hugely unparsimonious and unwarranted assumption, and that in that outside both causality and time somehow existed.... On the other hand if its frames were created sequentially that is no longer a block universe, but a universe in which time flows and causality produces subsequent frames from previous ones, which is of course the actual universe we observe... Either way the concept of a block universe is one of the most mind blowingly moronic ideas anyone ever came up with. It reminds me of the ideas me and my buddies used to come up with in Jr. High School just for laughs but which no one was dumb enough to ever take seriously. Edgar On Friday, January 24, 2014 7:58:06 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > Dear Edgar, > > One has to be willing to face the flames, sometimes literally, when > promoting a new idea. I do appreciate your concepts and willingness to > defend them. I must say that so far I have not seen anything original in > your proposal that really sparks my attention. > I do wish you would consider the argument that I wrote up about how we > must use a plurality of "computational spaces" and not a single > computational space -dimensional or otherwise, if we are going to argue > that computation generates the physical world. As to my argument against > block time, it, IMHO, boils down to an attempt to argue that our perception > of change is an illusion and offers no explanation for the persistence of > the illusion in the face of physical facts. This concept is not new, it is > thousand of years old, going all the way back to Parmenides- that can be > documented. > I favor Hericlutus' vision that Becoming is ontologically fundamental > and that all things in Reality come in dual pairs. This gives us a way to > think of the ontological foundation of existence as a property neutral Void > - the one thing that Democritus got right. The Void is not to be considered > to be static and timeless, but as the complete collection of all possible > forms of becoming, each of which is a Process that has, in most cases, > products. (To use the languaging of Gordon > Pask<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Pask> > ) > Out of this Void emerges "atoms" (totally disconnected topological > spaces) and logical structures (the Stone dual of the spaces) that have > "arrows of evolution" that point in opposite directions (as discussed by > Vaughan > Pratt in his proposed solution to the mind-body > problem<http://boole.stanford.edu/pub/ratmech.pdf>). > > <div class="gmail_default" 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.
