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One explanation I picked up in a book some time ago was that the illusion could be explained as a series of moments (like the frames of a movie), due to the fac
by CuriousSkeptic 11y ago
One explanation I picked up in a book some time ago was that the illusion could be explained as a series of moments (like the frames of a movie), due to the fact that each such moment contained an encoding of the previous frame (your memory) and an anticipation of future frames (your expectations) the illusion that the individual moments are connected in a linear progression emerges, much like the illusion of motion emerges from watching movie frames.
- CuriousSkeptic 11y agoJust brain dumping here but I have this thought that maybe the universe unfolds like a grammar. You start with a description of everything that can exist according to some laws of physics, if you do this recursively, like a grammar. You would have a root node (this would be the Big Bang) from there you generate every possible state. This would result in a tree where each node (present) is either the Big Bang or hangs of some other tree (the past) and has branches for each possible configuration (futures) to generate from that state.
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoThat's still a causally structured universe, which does thus actually have a kind of time (the causal arrow of time) built into it.