Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> Peter Jones writes:
>
> > Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> >
> > > I don't know if block universe theories are true or not, but the subjective
> > > passage of time is not an argument against them. If mind is computation, do
> > > you believe that a conscious computation can tell if it is being run as a sequential
> > > series of steps or in parallel, without any external information?
> >
> >
> > If it is being run at all, it is dynamic, not static. Parallel
> > processes are still
> > processes.
>
> But the important point is that the temporal sequence does not itself make a difference
> to subjective experience.
We don't actually know that it is possible that
there might be some flicker effect.
> Would you say that it is in theory possible for the subjective
> passage of time to be as we know it if the blocks were not infinitesimal, but lasted for
> a second, so that the whole ensemble of blocks lasted for a second?
There is still duration within blocks
> Then what if you
> make the blocks shorter in duration and larger in number, progressively down to
> infinitely many blocks of infinitesimal duration: is there room for dynamism in an
> infenitesimal interval?
There are such things as infintiessimal velocities...
> And note that the usual linear view of time is not so different
> from this: an infinite sequence of infinitesimals, which somehow add up to the effect
> of continuous activity.
>
> Stathis Papaioannou
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Received on Mon Aug 14 2006 - 08:53:37 PDT