'Psychological time' is a concept of time, part of your current psychology.
Occam would disapprove of assuming that psychological events are real
events; assuming a hard, physical world when there is no need for one.
The simplest possible explanation for 'you' is: everything exsists,
therefore this current thought exisits.
It makes no sense to speak of an objective 'you' - it's as fatuous as
pointing at a square piece of pastry, saying 'there's a fish!' and cutting a
fish shape out of the square to prove it.
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> From: Russell Standish [SMTP:R.Standish.domain.name.hidden]
> Sent: Wednesday, 03 May, 2000 1:25 AM
> To: james.higgo.domain.name.hidden
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> Subject: Re: this very moment
>
> There needs to be psychological time in which to unravel the history
> embedded in a single observer moment. Once one has psychological time,
> one may as well go the whole hog and have a complete history, with an
> infinite number of observer moments.
>
> Its an Occam thing. Nothing rules out a "Groundhog Day" type of
> effect, where we endlessly keep playing back a small piece of history
> (eg 1 day, or even 10 seconds if you like), however I suspect this is
> a more complicated explanation (therefore of smaller measure) than
> just assuming that we live our whole lives.
>
> Cheers
>
> Higgo James wrote:
> >
> > Would someone please give me a reason why there needs to be anything
> more to
> > the observer than 'this very conscious moment' ?
> > James
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