On 22 April 2015 at 10:49, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > In an evolving block universe how do we know that we are now standing in the > present anticipating the evolving future rather than in the past > anticipating an already set, but later, past? > > > On a mailing list that puts so much weight on consciousness I think it would > be obvious that "We're conscious of the present."
I may have misunderstood the idea of an evolving block universe. I thought it meant that the past is, as it were, existent in the block, but the future is not - until it becomes the present. But if the past is existent in the block, how do we know that we are conscious in the present and not in the past? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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/d/optout.
