Re: this very moment

From: Jacques Mallah <jackmallah.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 16:50:05 -0700 (PDT)

--- Russell Standish <R.Standish.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> 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.

    You were doing fine until that little word "we".
Other obsever-moments exist, but there's no reason to
insist that the ones that seem psychologically to be
in our past or future are really "the same person".
    

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Received on Wed May 03 2000 - 16:53:10 PDT

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