On 4/22/2015 3:58 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Thursday, April 23, 2015, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[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.
There's a special present along each world-line and it's the one you're conscious of. Brent -- 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.
