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> all of the moments that make me and everything I care about are still there, occupying their own spacetime regions, eternal, in a way. Yes but not evolving a
by navaati 8y ago
> all of the moments that make me and everything I care about are still there, occupying their own spacetime regions, eternal, in a way.
Yes but not evolving anymore. What sucks isn't really not existing anymore, what do sucks is having no future. If a supervillain's evil plan was eternally freezing the universe right now, I would be as sad as if it was making it disappear.
- SiempreViernes 8y agoThe block universe doesn't mean a specific moment in time is all that is, it means that they all coexist. Dynamics in block universe is like reading a book: it seems things happen as you move your attention over the pages, but in truth the story was fixed before you even started.
- Ntrails 8y agoWhich is fine but it's not a meaningful change to the perspective of me on page 120 when I think "when we reach page 163 I will no longer feature in this novel". Our problems with death are, basically, ego. How you mentally model time and the universe doesn't take that away
- SiempreViernes 8y agoWhile I agree that death will feature no matter how you model time, the difference between the flowing time and the block universe in this regard is that in the block universe you never cease to exist. In the model of flowing time, once you are dead you've passed out of existence, only to be clinging on trough the memories of others.
- gowld 8y agoM. Williams wrote a well-regarded treatise on this topic: https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Book-Elephant-Piggie/dp/1423133080 https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Book-Elephant-Piggie/dp/142313...
- Koshkin 8y ago> what do sucks is having no future Nature has a clever way of dealing with this: at a certain point in life you begin wishing you had no future.