On 22 April 2015 at 21:21, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > > An evolving block universe has an extra time dimension along which it evolves. This can be handily described as a 5D block universe. And so on, turtles all the way down (and entirely pointless ones, the 4D block universe works just fine). What gets me about those who don't like BUs is their view on the past. Apparently the past is a BU but the future isn't? Why? No obvious answer....Seems more like BS, TBH. -- 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.
