On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 1:07 PM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 7:11 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 11:49 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Do you believe other locations in space exist? >>> >> >> They exist, but there is no sense in which they are simultaneous with my >> existence. >> > > There are certain senses in which you could, but I mostly agree (as they > are not objective). > > >> They exist because events at other locations in my past light cone can >> affect me, and I can affect events at other locations in my future light >> cone. >> > > Okay, no problem with this. > > >> Do you believe other locations in time exist? >>> >> >> I believe that I have a past, and will have a future, but I do not >> believe that these exist in my present. Such an idea is clearly a >> linguistic confusion. >> > > I agree. > > >> (I answer yes to both questions, that is all I mean by block time -- that >>> there is no privileged part of space time blessed with the property of >>> existence). >>> >> >> The present is all that you can know exists. All else is idle >> speculation. >> > > But you just said there is no such thing as the present (since there is no > objective notion of simultaneity) > I have never said that there is no such thing as the present. All I have said is that the notion of a space-like hyper-surface of simultaneity is not an objective notion. The print moment exists now for ev very one of us individually. Of course, you can construct imaginary theories in which unicorns, fairies, >> and Hogwarts Castle exist, but you would not have any evidence for any of >> these. >> > > You just said you have evidence for the existence of objects in your past > light cone. Why presume that they would disappear from existence? What is > the motivation/justification for such an idea? > I have no evidence that they exist now, since all I am currently aware of is the record of their past existence as it is present to me now. The evidence is that they existed in the past. Why is that not sufficient? I tend not to believe in things, like fairies, for which I have no current evidence. Bruce -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
