On 06 Feb 2014, at 00:17, Russell Standish wrote:
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.
The "moving 1p view point", or perhaps better the 1p moving-view
point", is an affair of qualia and person, indeed.
It will correspond to S4Grz(1) in arithmetic, or the "Soul of the
World" in Plotinus.
Bruno
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
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