From tomorrow I will be incommunicado for ten days contemplating this sort of thing.
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From tomorrow I will be incommunicado for ten days contemplating this sort of thing.
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cap writes:I find this stuff fascinating, but extremely creepy and disturbing. Anyone else feel this way? Unfortunately I’m home alone tonight too!I’ve read the End of Time. It’s beautiful, and, so far as I can tell from my restricted vantage point, Barbour is able to completely convey the concept behind his idea, without the reader having to know much physics.Barbour talks a bit about how consciousness fits into his model, but I still have many questions. Is my consciousness in this Now the same as the consciousness in the next Now? (By the next Now I mean whatever actual Now corresponds to what I, now, am thinking of as the next Now. Nows in which I would seem to remember this Now. And I guess there are many.) I think Barbour might say no, there is no connection, other than a similar pattern.Not to be a downer, but Barbour’s model has all the horrors that the many worlds quantum mechanics interpretation has. Except worse — these horrors never pass away. Of course this has no bearing on the truth of the model.
I’d be interested to know what his take on cause and effect is. That’s a notion that I’m kind of interested in and have mixed feeings about. I suppose I see all these things, though (including Barbour’s theories) as human mental constructs imposed on experience. Well, must finish packing.
I note cap’s remark of plural nows and yours about cause and effect. The more we know, the more possibilities.Happy packing.
Okay, it’s been ten days!
You went to Texas?
No. Close, though.I went to Hereford.
I’m back.Just settling in again.
I didn’t notice one. I didn’t go out much, though.
But you drank enough tea?
No Chinatown there, I suppose? 😀
You can never drink enough tea.Actually, normal tea ran out, and I had to fall back on rooibos.