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I fully expect us to find multiple time dimensions to actually exist. But that is just a selfish hope for free will to exist. think about it: taps head If i

I fully expect us to find multiple time dimensions to actually exist. But that is just a selfish hope for free will to exist. think about it: taps head If it's a time 'line' then you don't get to pick your direction - no choice is no free will, only if a line exists in a plane does choice come into the picture. /s

t_mann 4y ago
Haha, yeah this is missing a taps head meme. But we don't even need multiple time dimensions for free will to exist! I've heard more than one physicist argue that quantum uncertainty alone is enough to get us free will.
- jaynetics 4y ago
  I'd argue that a certain randomness of choice could indeed increase freedom of action, though it doesn't grant "free will" in the common sense. There's no need for quantum physics in this, though. A deterministic rand() will do just fine.
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- mehphp 4y ago
  I’d be curious how?
somat 4y ago
My personal bogo science "ship" (that is, it is wrong, I will never get the enthusiasm to learn enough to disprove it, but I like to think about it as I fall asleep). Why is time "constrained" as a dimension, that is, you can only move one direction through time, why? So thinking about how to constrain a dimension, I thought of black holes, once you pass the event horizon they remove half a dimension, This then makes me think of the big bang and why is it not a black hole? the entire mass of the universe in one place... suspicious, then I think... what if it is a black hole(ish) and we(and the entire known universe) are in the event . horizon and the dimension constrained we perceive as time. and each layer of event horizon constrains another dimension. At which point I usually fall asleep.
- Jalad 4y ago
  Well as long as we're writing scifi... The way I think about time (also probably wrong and not nuanced enough) is through the energy of a system (entropy?). Essentially if the whole universe operates on a tick based update system, then moving from one state to the next is all about how various particles interact with each other. And this in general would be particles moving from a higher entropy state to a lower entropy state. So effectively to go back in time you'd need a lot of energy to undo all the chemical reactions / potential to kinetic energy conversions etc. that caused us to go from one state to the next. So even if it was possible to undo the appropriate state changes using some magic machine, there wouldn't be energy to do it Now what's really mind blowing is that if such a machine was operating on you, you might still be conscious in a potentially horrifying way. The conclusions of your thoughts come before the thoughs that triggered them, and then they melt away into the thoughts that will trigger them...
carcinocron 4y ago
Actually a background detail of a novel I'm writing is that an alien species can perceive and distinguish both time dimensions.

t_mann 4y ago

Haha, yeah this is missing a taps head meme. But we don't even need multiple time dimensions for free will to exist! I've heard more than one physicist argue that quantum uncertainty alone is enough to get us free will.

jaynetics 4y ago
I'd argue that a certain randomness of choice could indeed increase freedom of action, though it doesn't grant "free will" in the common sense. There's no need for quantum physics in this, though. A deterministic rand() will do just fine.
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mehphp 4y ago
I’d be curious how?

somat 4y ago

My personal bogo science "ship" (that is, it is wrong, I will never get the enthusiasm to learn enough to disprove it, but I like to think about it as I fall asleep). Why is time "constrained" as a dimension, that is, you can only move one direction through time, why? So thinking about how to constrain a dimension, I thought of black holes, once you pass the event horizon they remove half a dimension, This then makes me think of the big bang and why is it not a black hole? the entire mass of the universe in one place... suspicious, then I think... what if it is a black hole(ish) and we(and the entire known universe) are in the event . horizon and the dimension constrained we perceive as time. and each layer of event horizon constrains another dimension. At which point I usually fall asleep.

Jalad 4y ago
Well as long as we're writing scifi... The way I think about time (also probably wrong and not nuanced enough) is through the energy of a system (entropy?). Essentially if the whole universe operates on a tick based update system, then moving from one state to the next is all about how various particles interact with each other. And this in general would be particles moving from a higher entropy state to a lower entropy state. So effectively to go back in time you'd need a lot of energy to undo all the chemical reactions / potential to kinetic energy conversions etc. that caused us to go from one state to the next. So even if it was possible to undo the appropriate state changes using some magic machine, there wouldn't be energy to do it Now what's really mind blowing is that if such a machine was operating on you, you might still be conscious in a potentially horrifying way. The conclusions of your thoughts come before the thoughs that triggered them, and then they melt away into the thoughts that will trigger them...

carcinocron 4y ago

Actually a background detail of a novel I'm writing is that an alien species can perceive and distinguish both time dimensions.