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The problem of time comes from the notion that we are matter existing through time, instead of realizing sentience is made of events.
by DrFell 7y ago
The problem of time comes from the notion that we are matter existing through time, instead of realizing sentience is made of events.
- ISL 7y agoEven if it is an ordered series of events, why does it appear to have a direction to the ordering?
- stagas 7y agoThe direction is purely philosophical. Things are changing from one state to the other. Even if it was backwards, you'd still convince yourself that it is the forward way. Things simply change.
- DrFell 7y agoCausality, I guess would be my answer there.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoBut in your view of time, what is causality? Can it even exist?
- stagas 7y agoAre there distinct events in the real world or we simply draw the lines arbitrarily simply for the sake of practicality? The whole existence could be the light of a match, experienced in an immensely detailed spacetime scale.
- teilo 7y agoPrecise clocks don't care about your sentience or lack thereof. They still measure the gravity and speed-induced time dilation that is entirely missing in quantum mechanics. Relativity is a physical phenomenon that does not require sentience to operate, and time is part of that physical phenomenon.
- DrFell 7y agoClocks appear to tick because we are locked in a series of moments. The clock exists at all times it has or will show.
- jayd16 7y agoBut how does this solve for relativistic time dilation?
- DrFell 7y agoMy conjecture that consciousness is made of events is an attempt to explain why we see ‘the problem of time’. There are more widely accepted concepts around the subject, like the idea that all moments in time exists equally, not just now. Now is a slice through the cosmos that really exists. I have had thoughts about how relativistic effects work with that, but I honestly think I went far enough. I leave that to others to think about or scoff at.
- blfr 7y agoRelativity is a physical phenomenon that does not require sentience to operate We do not and cannot know that because all observations me make involve sentience. In fact, we can't even know if anything exists without sentience.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoNope. The universe 'notices', by reacting in exactly the way you'd expect if relativity was happening. That last bit - "...we can't even know.." is sophistry.
- blfr 7y agoThere is nothing sophistic about this argument. It's pretty obvious. This is why some people argue that we might be living in a simulation. Because we don't have direct (not mediated by our senses) access to the underlying reality.