From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Sep 03 2004 - 01:04:31 BST
Mel,
> I am afraid that I do not see how an independent
> notion of time (apart from relative movement) is required.
> If it is I need to understand it.
One doesn't need an independent notion of time apart from relative
movement. What one needs is a notion of eternity so that one can speak of
movement being observed, that can capture the succession of instants as a
movement of a continuing thing, or, alternatively, that denies that there
is any succession of instants in the first place. What I am getting at is
that if one assumes separated things and events (which we call spacetime)
as the basis of reality then one cannot have mind. So, I argue, the
separation into things and events (the creation of spacetime) is the
product of perception, that perception turns an eternal whatever (e.g. the
quantum universe) into a spatio-temporal organization.
- Scott
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