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i'm not sure our current descriptions of physical law make any assumptions about continuity or the nature of time. The notion that time works equally well run "backwards" or "forwards" when applied to the equations of physics has always been a bit of an unanswered question. That entropy gives...

I think you would be contiguous of the t axis, just that the definition of "you" being an instant in that t would be pretty debatable. You would actually be smeared over the whole t range from your birth to your death. It's interesting that the laws of the universe don't so much depend on...

Couldn't it be that your own thoughts about your mind are what is actually abstract? Maybe that's necessitated by the fact that your concrete mind is way to complex to actually be faithfully represented in any reasonable way by itself, and therefore you have to cut some corners to fit it in...

It would be easier to see the four dimensional universe as a rule constrained structure where there are succession of instants in time simultaneously existing. In other words, the illusion of your continuous consciousness and the illusion of the progression in time is merely due to the...