07-16-2020 03:17 AM
A bit doom and gloom, since this means that even in a multi-verse, everything eventually stops, freezes, and dies. Although... what about the Law of motion? Everything in motion stays in motion until acted upon by an external force, right? Yet this theory says... everything in motion stays in motion until it runs out of thermal energy, which is an internal force. Hmmm.
I find this one fascinating, as it emphasizes the power of the mind. It also helps understand how different people experience Virtual Reality; since no two people experience things the same way, and how one person experiences something cannot be known by another. We can only attempt to share these experiences through analogy.
In one, only the present is real because we cannot exist in the past nor
future; thus the past and future are imagined concepts. Whereas in the
other, time is multi-layered, and all layers of time exist
simultaneously. Where we exist is determined by the observer.
Eternalism
is a personal favorite of mine. Although it poses the problem of free
will potentially being an illusion; since the future already exists.
I like this idea because it relies on the concept of the Multi-verse coupled with the endless possibilities of infinity.
While I put this in the Off-Topic thread, I did start to thinking... how awesome would it be if a VR App was created that allowed people to exist in each of these philosophical worlds?
07-16-2020 04:58 AM
07-16-2020 06:00 AM
nalex66 said:The Big Freeze: conservation of energy means it can’t run out. I think the more likely end state of the universe, as the black holes at the centres of galaxies gobble up everything, is collapse to a singularity, followed by another Big Bang and the birth of a new universe. Whether it’s identical to the previous one or wildly different, we will never know.
Nice!
Hmm, so if I'm understanding this correctly, that would mean that each decision tree creates its own time thread? Thus, free will is possible because we will follow different decision trees in time based on the choices we make? I can agree with that, however, it does create "choice" as some sort of measurable manifestation. I can see where Time and Space can be woven in to separate threads, but adding Choice as a thread seems to be an attempt to create a measurement of something that can't be measured. Choice, action, and consequence are things that "take place within a specific space during a particular moment in time." We would need to explore what exactly gives "choice" the power to create new Time and Space threads.
The way I see Eternalism, is that all consequences and learning from those consequences has already taken place. So whatever choices we think we're making of our own free will, have already been made and we're following a single thread (in reality) where we only imagine what other paths we could have taken; but those other paths were never woven in to Time and Space because we never made those other choices.
I need my tin foil hat. Brb.
07-16-2020 07:44 AM
Zenbane said:
...Hmm, so if I'm understanding this correctly, that would mean that each decision tree creates its own time thread? Thus, free will is possible because we will follow different decision trees in time based on the choices we make? I can agree with that, however, it does create "choice" as some sort of measurable manifestation. I can see where Time and Space can be woven in to separate threads, but adding Choice as a thread seems to be an attempt to create a measurement of something that can't be measured. Choice, action, and consequence are things that "take place within a specific space during a particular moment in time." We would need to explore what exactly gives "choice" the power to create new Time and Space threads.The way I see Eternalism, is that all consequences and learning from those consequences has already taken place. So whatever choices we think we're making of our own free will, have already been made and we're following a single thread (in reality) where we only imagine what other paths we could have taken; but those other paths were never woven in to Time and Space because we never made those other choices.
I need my tin foil hat. Brb.
07-16-2020 08:19 AM
07-18-2020 03:53 AM
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08-17-2020 03:57 AM
08-17-2020 10:24 AM
Abstract.
A Theoretical Introduction to a Model of Human Consciousness.
It is possible to describe
human consciousness as a representational
system. This system consists of 3 main interacting levels: (1) The presentation, which is the part of
the physical reality that influences the human senses. (2) The representation, which is defined by; (2a) a selective mental
reflection of the presentation; (2b) a mental reflection of stored information from long term memory; (2c) a selective mental reflection of the presentation in
relation to stored information from long term memory. (3) The meta-representation, which is an abstraction and/or an
expansion of an original representation.
It is argued that the
function of the human representational system must be understood in relation to
problem-solving skills and capacity.
New evidence concerning the
mental and cultural levels of chimpanzees is examined in relation to an
understanding of the phylogenetic development of the human representational
system. This evidence includes examination of the cultural development within different
societies of chimpanzees: an examination of the hunting behavior and tool use
of the Taï chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus), the Mahale and Gombe
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). The basic assumption is that the
chimpanzees do posses a representational system, which is different from the
human representational system. It is argued that this difference is best understood in relation to the capacity of each representational system.
Evidence concerning the
mental and cultural levels of chimpanzees is further extended in the light of
archaeological findings, which indicate that a development of the capacity of
the human representational system is related directly to the phylogenetic development
of larger brain sizes.
The great basic idea
that the world is not to be viewed as a complex of fully fashioned objects, but
as a complex of processes, in which apparently stable objects, no less than the
image of them inside our heads (our concepts), are undergoing incessant changes
…
In the eyes of dialectical philosophy,
nothing is established for all time, nothing is absolute or sacred. On
everything and in everything it sees the stamp of inevitable decline; nothing
can resist it save the unceasing process of formation and destruction, the
unending ascent from lower to the higher – a process of which that philosophy
itself is only a simple reflection within the thinking brain.
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02-07-2022 01:51 PM
Liar...