On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 02:43:32PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > Russell, > > That's a block time interpretation, not as you imply anything proven. > Certainly the equations themselves don't necessitate that... > > If you accept that you are faced with the intractable problem of explaining > the source of that moving 1p viewpoint. >
It doesn't seem particularly intractable to me, although it is related to the "hard question" of how qualia comes about, so perhaps you are alluding to that. > And notice that strictly block time says NOTHING moves, not even a 1p > viewpoint, Block time doesn't mention 1p at all. The subjective is not part of its explanatory reach. Perhaps you are trying to attribute too much explanatory power to the notion of block time? If you hold that block time is all that there is, then you are basically eliminatavist in your approach. Julian Barbour is in that camp, but I think that most denizens of this list are not, except perhaps John Clark who dismisses it as pee-pee. > that it's all a mysterious illusion of perspective that makes it > seem like something moves when nothing actually does, though of course no > one can explain why or how.... > > Edgar > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/groups/opt_out.
