On Thursday, April 23, 2015, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/22/2015 2:21 AM, Stathis Papaioannou 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. >> > > Yes, that's Ellis'es concept. > > 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? >> > > Isn't whatever time of which we're conscious "the present", by definition? >
Yes, in a block universe, but in an evolving block universe there is also a special present. -- 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.
