Speakpigeon
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- Feb 4, 2009
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- Paris, France, EU
- Basic Beliefs
- Rationality (i.e. facts + logic), Scepticism (not just about God but also everything beyond my subjective experience)
Why would you need to explain anything in a universe without time?I agree with the idea that time may be merely the way our brain represents change. If you think of the successive states of the brain, and in particular memories, and arrange these views along a fourth dimension of space, there is no longer a need for a time dimension. I see this view as consistent with what the physical world seems to be. But I can't really reconcile this view with my subjective experience as the sense that I am moving through time so to speak remains undeniable. I guess the point is that the present has a particular quality compared to past moments giving this sense that you are at a particular moment now and will be at "the next one" soon. That may be illusory but I don't think one can beat down that sense of time. Well, at least this would explain why some people fail to understand the very idea of there being no time dimension.
EB
And how do you explain time dilatation?
How do you explain that simultainiousness is relative?
It would be just the way things are laid out across the four-dimensional space, including your own beliefs about how things pan out outside your mind. Whether those beliefs would match up to anything is anyone guess.
It would look a bit like a fractal picture. Only a metaphor this.
EB