What a monochromatic world it would be without such resources as the Essentia Foundation and its quorum of brilliant and informed thinkers. Thank you all.🧡
Bernard the reason you are you is because that is your identity. That is the one thing that only you possesses that nobody else does out of an infinite number of infinite for an infinite number of eternities. Even when this most prized possession that is your own self is shared as it always is with infinity because you are part of it there is still that little part that is you because that is the only one that there is that is you completely unique 100% One of a kind for all Infiniti of Infiniti of eternity an existence is you are the only one of these things that there will ever be whether you're an atheist or religious that is a fact both ways. There's only one of you that will ever be and there's only one of you that's ever been and that is a completely unique thing that will never be replicated or reproduced anywhere else. That is what people don't understand identity is the very first thing besides movement.
Interesting to read this comment when I just came up with my thought that if you go back far enough, time was just a color, Everything was fine.... Then nothing happened,; has been happening at the speed of light ever since
We are fools to think the Universe is a permanently cooked cake and you can go on feasting.. but poor earthly creatures! If there is a meaning for the word volatile that is this universe.. the milky way is always moving changing directions and density... All life and matter in the sky of multiverses and milky way is ever changing.. actually the change is as quick as your wink..we look to move and change slow ..but that's how it's conducted.. all changes reach us , the earthly creatures , in relation to the ratio of changes in the universe and on this earth.. So all results of your experiments are not really giving correct answers.. all the results of your costly experiments are belated and worn out before it reaches the earth..still a few changes trickle down..that gives you a scope for further experiments...
Thank you for hosting this conference. Though I am just a curious layman, I find that these inquiries and discussions add value to all of us even if I am just barely able to understand the ideas presented. It leaves me in awe and stretches my mind
Time as a Superposition in Higher Dimensions: This notion suggests that our perception of time as a linear progression may be an oversimplification of a more complex reality. Instead of time unfolding linearly as we experience it, it could exist in a superposition state within higher-dimensional spaces. In this view, time would not flow strictly from past to future but could encompass multiple potential timelines or configurations simultaneously. Elaboration: Consider time as a dimension similar to the three spatial dimensions we perceive, but with additional dimensions beyond our comprehension. In this framework, time could exist in a superposition of states, analogous to how quantum particles can exist in multiple states simultaneously until observed. From our limited perspective, we perceive time as progressing linearly, but in higher-dimensional reality, time may exhibit a more intricate structure, encompassing multiple possibilities and configurations.
A discussion along similar lines can be found in the paper "On the Quantization of Gravity by Embedding Space-time in a Higher Dimensional Space", Classical and Quantum Gravity 2 (1985) 869 and some other subsequent papers of mine.
In realms where physics intertwines with thought, Where time's elusive dance is deeply wrought, The scholars gather, minds ablaze, to ponder, The mysteries of time, its spell we're under. Einstein's legacy, a towering might, Yet shadows linger, questions taking flight, Was he mistaken, in his grasp of time's embrace? Or does the truth reside in a subtler space? Newton's clockwork universe, precise and grand, With time as a river, flowing at its hand, But relativity whispers, bending the stream, A dance of spacetime, in a cosmic dream. Quantum mysteries, where particles entwine, In a dance of uncertainty, where time may redefine, Do they hold the key to consciousness's sway, Or is there more to time than we dare say? The second law, a decree of entropy's reign, A arrow of time, flowing against the grain, Yet within our minds, does time find its home, A subjective journey, where moments roam? Idealism's gaze, casting shadows long, Philosophical ponderings, a timeless song, Neurophysics, psychology, the mind's terrain, In search of answers, through each winding lane. Essentia Foundation, a beacon bright, Guiding seekers through the depths of night, In the convergence of minds, a symphony plays, Time and consciousness, in an endless maze. So let us journey, with open minds unfurled, Exploring the mysteries of this time-bound world, For in the union of science and thought, we find, The essence of existence, in the tapestry of Time and Mind.
@@dimitrispapadimitriou5622 That may well be true, but once a work of art has left the artist's hand, he loses his exclusive right to its metaphorical implications, which are in the eye of the beholder.
Maybe consciousness originates in a higher or lower dimension and so it may not be included in our theory of everything in our dimension. And maybe time is actually in a superposition in a higher dimension and we perceive it linear in ours.
I totally agree on your last line, that is an interesting perspective. Nevertheless, I think we totally have a wrong view on what Time truly is. It is a bit like the label curved SpaceTime, as a teen what did that induce inside my imagination, well that SpaceTime is a fabric of something whats however. So something is really curved physically. I think the same effect plays on us for Time, we experience it as a Dimension on it self. I do not believe that is the case however. What am I sure of, that we humans are very conditioned, more then we like to admit probably.
All truth is relative and dynamical. Change is absolutely fundamental. Patterns of change ( in magnitude and angle) manifest in infinite dimensions as energy, matter, consciousness, and the passage of time. The world of everyday experience is , given the constraints, a three - dimensional sum over histories in the infinite.
Bernardo, Thank you. You have my sincere respect and gratitude for the work you have done. You have made a tremendous impact on my understanding of important philosophical concepts concerning the nature of reality.
I’m sooooo happy these conversations are happening! I just wish they had been when I was in academia years ago and I had been a part of it! So grateful to the Essentia Foundation for putting this out there to keep us all thinking and wondering and delighting in the journey!
You very much are part of it. If anything, this implies that you may have always been part of this conversation, academic attendance notwithstanding. This is time to gather and embrace all aspects of yourself to fully participate at this time. The timeline that you are in has perfectly prepated you for full participation in this precious present moment.
An interesting aside to the specious time idea is the great American baseball player who claimed back in the 40's, when he played the game, that time "slowed down for him to the point that he could see the rotation of the ball as it approached and could react to it in ways that others couldn't. Interestingly he claimed to be able to smell the impact of the ball against the bat the horsehide of the ball striking his bat. Many have claimed he was full of it, but there is little doubt he was most likely the greatest hitter of all time. And perhaps his explanation is an example of this phenomena.
The issue of 'separate identity' and the fundamental privacy of personal experience in the context of that which is inaccessible and internal is addressed in the work on 'quantum information' by Federico Faggin and G Mauro D'Ariano which also has deep implications for an understanding of time as a fundamental mediator of trans-action within the hidden relational realm of the quantum substratum. Which can be found in a paper titled 'Hard Problem and Free Will: an information-theoretical approach' co-authored by Faggin and D'Ariano which incorporates quantum information.
I enjoyed = The Setting of the talk felt very traditional and was welcoming and warming. The Guests where amazing and every one was epic and information presented in the time given was amazingly compacted by each guest very well, finally the topic did center on TIME but I was happy it felt very investigative and thus not to dismiss all areas of our reality, like philosophy, psychology, physics, and so many more subjects involved it was great!
The challenge of dealing with time is to recognize there is a fundamental distinction between a materialistic/nominalistic worldview with which one can associate the function of the left cerebral hemisphere and is a form of time which is synchronic and 'chronotic' and, effectively, spatialized, as Henri Bergson would argue, versus a form of time that is fundamentally relational, intersubjective, qualitative, diachronic and 'kairotic' and is associated with the function of the 'relationally-oriented' right cerebral hemisphere. The former 'chronotic' time is 'the time of the physicist' is quantitative and numerical involving the counting of oscillations of a physical system that is a stable oscillator--it exists but it is linear, and it is NOT continuous NOR is it real. The latter form of 'kairotic' time, associated with Bergson's 'La Durée', however, is relational, intersubjective, and it IS continuous, circular, AND it IS real.
Why do we corroborate each other’s experience? Under classical physics, the simplest explanation was that mentality is a map of physical territory. With QM, the Born Rule, Bell’s inequality, the invocation of internal symmetries in abstract Hilbert space, etc, this hypothesis of a physical world to explain our mutual corroboration is the no longer the simplest one; in fact it's become impossibly complicated (many worlds etc). Maybe QM suggests that we’ve been confusing the map and the territory. Maybe the realm of Mind/Qualia/Experience is the territory, and QM is the map, and then there’s no remaining impetus to invoke anything physical/objective at all. I suspect the mathematical models of physics are the best-yet attempt for predicting our mutual corroborations/constraints in a purely mental domain, and that's it. I wonder more people don’t entertain this “zero worlds” idea. This view is entirely scientific, if you reframe science as the most sophisticated and rigorous method for prediction of experience, rather than any description of a "natural world".
I so much appreciate these presentations and discussion. It further confirms what I’ve come to suspect about the fundamental nature of existence. One point of confusion though, is the concept of an evolving block universe. In the Einsteinian view, isn’t "block time" also part of the model? Evolution implies a process that unfolds over time, which wouldn’t square with an eternal, timeless “Now”. This might be resolved in the Idealist position that the Block is that inaccessible domain behind Bernardo’s frequent analogy of a dashboard, and it is simply our experience or “view” (Smollin?) that evolves. Perhaps this is also what Bernard Carr refers to as an additional dimension? At any rate, I look foreward to watching this again!
The relationship between mind and time is simple. Time is a measurement of difference. That’s why time is set by an atomic clock and we have time zones for light but not other things. Time itself is just the measurement of the differences between each other. The mind is grown differences through experiences and such. The mind grows its folds in relation to the differences absorbed by our sensors. Those folds are the neurons and the differences grown into our body/difference. These folds influence the body and the body manipulated reality to find things within the connections of differences. So time and mind are similar because the differences and connections that build both of them.
If an observer were to approach a null geodesic by accelerating close to the speed of light, they and their clock would perceive less time passing than a standard, earth bound dudebro. So time is not absolute. The absolute substance is by definition the only substance from which all things are derived. So time must not be a fault in the stars, for entropy is in the eye of the beholder. 😂 Kenosis. 😮
Not far from Cincinnati Ohio there is a somewhat smaller scale reproduction of the Eiffel Tower in an amusement park called King's Island. From the top of the tower one can see the entire park all at once- rollercoasters, games, food, water rides, and water park, you name it. But as you can imagine, experiencing the park in this manner is very different than actually riding the rides. When a soul descends the Eiffel Tower of the block universe and starts riding the rollercoasters, it experiences time and everything else entirely differently.
Nathan Seiberg is absolutely correct when he says: "I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated"... the more sophisticated notion he is wanting to make space for is none other than spacetime....
13:04 - No one ever makes this point as strongly as they should. The idea that "mind is fundamental" outright SOLVES the fine tuning problem. It just makes it go away. It's a simple argument. Minds exist, and they have perceptions that they call "the physical world." It's manifestly necessary that whatever physical world we perceive be one that is compatible with the existence of minds, since minds exist in the first place as a POSTULATE. Problem solved. Next?
Using the notion of time if we consider half the expansion of the universe does then this imply a Fourier unfolding of the universe where this is a link between the fourier and the laws.
yes, i found it difficult to understand a lot of the speakers on subjects which is already difficult to comprehend...was anyone else stuck by the fact that so many of these experts seem to have some neurologic issues?? is that a function of age??
@52mins: the first speaker seems to say that a physical system dynamics is linear if things move along straight lines!!. Earlier is unaware that Bohmian mechanics explains delayed choice experiments without retrocausal activity from the future (arXiv:1602.06100v1).
could an electromagnetic field expand space away, sending back photons (light) as it does? in pulling the past away, expansion of space makes room for future?
I found a mechanical definition of time. If we have a universe of radiation alone, it is not possible to define either time or space. But the moment radiation self-traps to form mass by going in closed loops, time is formed. It is the number of rounds radiation makes as it goes round. This is a number and goes in one direction exactly like time. If there is more than one mass created in this way, space is defined by sending light to go an reflect back while counting time. The distance is derived from d=c . f. So, both time and distance are created when matter is created. This is also the way the SI standard of units defines the second and meter, by the frequency of rotation/oscillation and the meter by the number of wavelengths.
No one has ever seen a tachyon - they've only talked about them. And no one has ever seen a closed timelike curve either. Just because our model predicts correct results does not mean that every prediction of our model is valid. There is no traveling into the past, because what MAKES something the past is the formation of memories of it. Once those memories are formed, they're formed and they don't go away. I'm not talking about just "our" memories - I'm talking about the memories of Bernardo Kastrup's single universal consciousness - some of which we consciously share, and some of which we unconsciously share.
It would be good to have the great spiritual orator Swami Sarvapriyananda at a conference like this . His knowledge of Advaita Vedanta ( plus his knowledge of physics and consciousness) would add a lot to this discussion. It may also help introduce Advaita Vedanta to scientists who aren't yet aware of it . Many scientists already are , Schrödinger certainly was and very impressed by it . E=🕉️
Wheels proposed quasars as a SOURCE OF PHOTONS, and those photons are definitively quantum. He wasn't doing anything with "the whole quasar" as a macroscopic object.
Relaytivity: It seems to me that two things far apart do not exist in the same reality. In order to be in the same reality, you need to establish a physical connection between the two. But to do that you need Communicate I.E. something must travel from one to the other-and that takes…TIME. The farther away from each other the more time it takes and the greater the separation from each other’s (instantaneous) reality. An independent observer is even worse, because he/she must connect with both at the same time.
when you time your perfect clock(subatomic) with the perfect time(a proper conjunction) of the universe you will start to understand the connection to all matter when the mind finds and remembers it can finally grasp the infinite
The guy saying that the universe will never be infinite is wrong because potential Infiniti is just as valid as infinite Infinity because something that is always expanding that has nothing to stop it as Newton's law says that something in motion tends the same thing goes for expansion growth and multiplying deciding and condensing.
The intro where he says time is an emergent property and then says the small doesnt have time is wrong but close. Time is an emergent property of difference, its a measurement of the difference between differences. between 1 and 8 there are several differences and math equations that expose the differences just like our differences expose realities differences.
Interestingly, no one who thinks time is unreal is able to make a description or even a single statement without invoking it. Made that is evidence enough it is real and even fundamental
Just change the word time to change and movement that’s what time is. From the smallest movement to the largest. It’s not hard life if you don’t let the ego blur your vision.
The Toroidal universe model is so similar to the understanding of our ancient ancestors who somehow were able to imagine the snake ( the universe ) eating its own tail. I am at awe 🫢 of how our ancient ancestors had had the understanding of that possibly very true nature of our universe.
Regarding Paranormal experience, the abstract void of Spacetime has messed up our thinking, a Medium or Substrate for the different vibrations that we see - light, matter, radiation, electricity, EM fields, gravity, Mind, Space (vacuum energy) - answers what and how we experience the Paranormal, as well as Memory and consciousness. Mind or big C (consciousness) as the Buddhists say is Space, and Space is Information. There is no Self, no observer, in isolation, Relationship and Process are the Functions of a Resonant Medium defined by a Harmonic Structure. "The Universe is a Wave, which manifests Harmonics, and each of these Harmonics manifest their own Harmonics." Ray Tomes.
Interesting, how the same people who want to deny or reduce the wave function also want to deny extension across time, to take us back to classical Newtonian picture.
The wave function of the universe has time trapped inside it as the wave nature means a time between crests. Not stubbornly consistent illusion but a prime factor of space/time.
We don't KNOW that space becomes granular and non-continuous. We are simply unable to observe physical space at scales smaller than that. That's it. Please be careful what words you choose.
The biggest problem with Smolin's theory is that he relies on subjective experience to say something about time, which has been proven to be unreliable in so many other (if not all) other aspects of reality. The title of his talk alone reinforces this biased view and he's already shot himself in the foot. Like Daniel Dennett, he thinks something is true because it "feels" that way.
One final thought from me: It is an amazing opportunity to sit in these wonderful conversations/debates. So, thank you all for allowing us to be a part of these events.
I'm not sure why we need to give the universe new properties to explain subjective experience including the subjective experience of the passage of time - is the concept of emergence not enough to make sense of how it may arise out of a neural network system? And why are we surprised that we have yet to figure out the exact working of it, the brain is insanely complicated. The most complicated thing in the known universe.
You need energy to have time. Time is simply how we perceive all the processes and energy transfers occuring simultaneously around us all the time. Chemical energy converted into kinetic energy for all living beings who survive off of nuclear energy from the sun being converted to thermal energy and warming our planet thus creating countless and constant energy transfers. Anything that moves or changes gives us the perception of time and anything that moves or changes contains energy. That is my ideas on time. Does being near a very dense object slow these processes down so that they occur at a slower rate (aging would be one of these processes and possibly conciousness or perception itself could be one of these processes. Edit: I believe time doesn’t go in reverse because it isn’t even possible. If it goes backwards in time we might perceive it as forwards anyways. In the literal sense without any “handicaps” it would be simply because the energy transfers do not and cannot behave in that way. You would have to change physics in a very specific and seemingly impossible way to allow energy transfers to reverse but if every single energy transfer that changed the world around you doesn’t reverse then the time wouldn’t “reverse” as it was. Every energy transfer that carried away the energy of our loved ones or they could not come back the same way. This would be incredibly complicated and is completely theoretical.
I dare say that Einstein’s claim of time being an illusion is being grossly misinterpretated…. He surely meant time-space is different from just time perception of the common people. He does not mean literally that time frame doesn’t exist (or is a mere illusion), but that it is entangled with space and speed of light….
Thank you for a brilliant time listening to experts about what else time. It’s one of many topics that has had conscious humanity puzzled, but certainly one of the few that really does get the philosophical mind going. Three dimensional space , time and energy, keep delving deep into our conscious minds
Is it a variation of where a 'cut' occurs? The event of activity of a participant (of any participantly available scale) determines (in a scalar way) experiencable change (at scale of participant)? inherently? All 'is' as registering of change? And therefore a constant & complexly participantly unique registering of activity/change but only ever referential or indicative at scale of participant register?
I greatly enjoyed these talks. I would like to bring to attention of the audience that the connection between consciousness, physics, and higher dimensions was discussed long ago in my paper "On the Quantization of Gravity by Embedding Space-time in a Higher Dimensional Space", Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2 (1985) 869. Among other, in that paper it stays: "In a normal, awake, state an observer is continuously measuring (at least with his sense organs) the proper time; he has no idea of ’other worlds’. Besides this situation, our theory also predicts a situation in which an observer does not measure the proper time, and as a compensation he can then have some knowledge about the distribution of matter through the higher space, i.e. he can experience in some way the existence of alternative worlds. Has this last prediction any relation to reality? My conjecture is that it has. Remember that an observer is not always in an awake state of consciousness. He can be under the influence of hypnosis, drugs, etc, or he can simply sleep and dream. When in such a state of consciousness, he is no longer precisely ‘measuring’ the proper time; he is not aware of the usual three-dimensional space or world, but nevertheless he is aware of something: he experiences various hallucinations, dreams, etc. Is this related to some certain extent with the existence of higher dimensional space and alternative worlds?" At that time, mentioning consciousness in a physics paper published in a physics journal was not very common. The concept of a three dimensional "now", perceived by consciousness, moving in a higher dimensional space (for example, one with three time dimensions), has been explored in several of my other publications. How Einstein's "block universe" can be superseded by introducing, besides the special relativity time coordinate, t, an additional time, referred to as "evolution time" or tau, has been considered by some physicists following Stueckelberg's initial proposal. In such theories, the wave function depends on tau and four spacetime coordinates and can be localized in spacetime, meaning it is localized not only in space but also in the time coordinate t. The region of such localization moves forward along t as tau increases. In my paper "On the interpretation of the relativistic quantum mechanics with invariant evolution parameter", Foundations of Physics 21 (1991) 1005, I argued that the localization of wave function in time implies that the observer is sharply aware only of a brief time interval around the "now", and that the tau is the time perceived by consciousness. This concept corresponds to "specious present" as considered by Bernard. In the works, superficially discussed in this brief comment, one can find how some of the concepts presented in the fascinating talks on this RU-vid channel can be formalized within the framework of higher dimensional theories and parametrized relativistic quantum mechanics.
* Is this related to some certain extent with the existence of higher dimensional space and alternative worlds?"* Personally I do not think so, Consciousness has always an experience intrinsic quality in it (see hypnosis or dreaming, where association is central, or lucid dream research from Stephen Laberge). Your interest in self reference is one i also share. Awareness is in my view a holographic, information&relation system with self reference.
I think Carr has lost the plot. He admitted right at the start that he is obsessing over meaningless questions like “Why am I me”? He supposes that his sense of self has some kind of fundamental importance. It really doesn’t. His body exists; there has to be *somebody* in there. And whoever it turns it out to be will be astonished to find himself there. Just like everybody else does. And that’s all there is to that. Regarding block spacetime vs the mind’s special role in time: neither rules out the other. Block spacetime is just a coordinate system. The minute somebody describes “all points in time co-existing simultaneously” I can tell they don’t understand what they’re looking at. You can’t make an animation of block spacetime, only a static drawing. Time is already IN the picture. “Simultaneous” just means “being located at the same time co-ordinate in that picture, having selected a particular relativistic reference frame”. The simultaneity of all parts of the diagram being visible to an observer outside the picture is irrelevant because his time coordinate does not apply to the picture. The role of the mind is simply that by virtue of the physical nature of brains, they only evolve in terms of experience, consciousness, memory, learning etc as one point in time follows another. This imposes an arrow of time for our brains . So our sense of time results bring the fact that we can only remember the past. And this does not depend on where the future is predetermined or not.
Life and Consciousness is Eternal, Stuff-side of Life, is a Motion-Ocean, time is the 'shadow' of Motion. Time do Only exist in the Mind of Living Beings, Life-side. Change become Motion, Motion become Time, and Time become Time-Spaces, memoires in our Consciousness.
Everything decays at a rate. Light seems to avoid this. Surely it must be out running time. How else could the particles be billions of years old and still maintain life?
an infinite time of consciousness would be of different character (subjective?) than objective nature of physical reality, emotional energy, and abstract thought?
"Before the beginning" is an invalid concept - I disagree. Spacetime is simply a coordinate system we invented to allow us to label events. We invented another coordinate system some centuries ago, too - terrestrial latitude and longitude. What's the terrestrial latitude and longitude of Tycho crater on the moon? See? Just because a invented coordinate system doesn't extend to cover something does not mean that something doesn't exist. To say that "before the beginning" is an invalid concept is to assert that spacetime contains all that there is, and that is not necessarily true. It contains all we know of. But with the discovery of entanglement and wormholes we are already starting to see some of spacetime's shortcomings. I believe mind is fundamental and "the physical world" is just the set of our perceptions. The ones we can agree on - dreams and hallucinations don't count (though dreams do definitively prove that "mind" can cause us to have perceptions we are happy to label "the physical world"). Our minds are not "within" those perceptions - it's like sitting in a theater and watching a movie. You are not in the movie, and the actions that unfold on screen don't "control you." What happens in spacetime, which is just part of a model we've constructed to model our perceptions, doesn't control our minds, either. We have free will and free ability to think that transcends that. I think our minds, collaboratively, control how quantum possibilities become realized history. And if Kastrup is right, that may include ALL quantum processes, including those we associate with inanimate systems, which would be controlled by the residue of the universal consciousness that is not part of any of our dissociated alters. So, free will is what ultimately causes realized fact to emerge from quantum possibilities. So, no one will ever explain "how mind emerges from physical processes," because mind is OUTSIDE of the physical world. Rather, the physical world emerges from the interactions of our minds.
The observer is the observed... know Thyself... Time is a method of measure, created to quantify change, or the rate of change, an illusionary tool. Know Thyself. " The thinker is the thought ". Namaste 🙏
I think time is a Dance of Objectivity and Subjectivity in Life Life is a fascinating interplay of objectivity and subjectivity, a dance where each step is measured by the yardstick of human experience and understanding. At its core, life is a series of processes that blend the objective reality of the world with the subjective interpretations of our minds. It's a journey where the tangible meets the intangible, and where the concrete facts of existence intertwine with the abstract nuances of personal experience. Objectivity in life is the solid ground beneath our feet. It's the reality that exists independently of our thoughts and beliefs, the universal truths that govern the laws of nature and the physical world. It's the predictability of a sunrise, the certainty of gravity, and the unchanging principles of mathematics. Objectivity offers us a stable foundation from which we can explore, learn, and grow. Subjectivity, on the other hand, is the sky above us, vast and ever-changing. It's the realm of personal feelings, emotions, and experiences. It's the unique lens through which we view the world, colored by our individual personalities, cultures, and backgrounds. Subjectivity allows us to dream, to create, and to find meaning in the chaos of existence. It's the brushstroke of imagination on the canvas of reality. The agency of subjectivity enables us to set goals, pursue purposes, and forge our paths. It's the driving force behind our passions and the spark that ignites our creativity. Through subjectivity, we interpret the objective world, giving rise to new ideas, insights, and concepts. It's the human touch that transforms the objective into something deeply personal and profoundly meaningful. Understanding life as a system, a predicting machine, is to acknowledge the interplay of these two forces. It's to recognize that our thoughts and feelings, both positive and negative, are influenced by the objective world even as they shape our subjective experiences. This understanding empowers us to navigate life's complexities with a sense of balance, appreciating the objective structures that hold us steady while embracing the subjective experiences that make life truly worth living. I believe time is the dance of objectivity and subjectivity, is what makes life rich and complex. It's a dynamic relationship that challenges us to think deeply, feel profoundly, and live fully. As we continue to explore this dance, we uncover the layers of our existence, discovering the beauty in both the measurable and the immeasurable aspects of life.
What exists already exists so you can take it for granted that there's enough stuff to create what we have. Otherwise it wouldn't be here so you take that energy or whatever that source material as a given because it is here. You don't think of it as having the beginning or when did the loop of constantly growing strange looping infinites
There's no reason to believe the higher dimensions exist. higher dimensions are an ad hoc addition to make 13:00 current theories of relativity and quantum mechanics to make them work. The solution is, consciousness is the fundamental future of existence.
@3:04:07I believe it is a conflicting notion to state that; having a meter to gauge these aspects would enable a skeptic to embrace open-mindedness... With all due respect.
Time is an essence of 3rd dimension and, going backwards to investigate past time, and every activity takes time even if the brain runs faster or slower but, just as your heartbeat may run faster or slower, time, regardless of physical variations, marches on as sure as day runs into night etc. etc. Time is not the 4rth dimension. 4rth dimension is in a totally different realm or perspective on spiritual plane. Etc. etc. You can capture events of time in 3rd dimension but such realization can only be grasped in 3rd dimension other wise it's just conjecture. Agape Solute. Ciao.
"The world looks significantly different depending on which time projection it is viewed in." (Naan). Of the three: Schwarzschild, proper and global, it seems that the third time should be chosen, since the asymmetry of time actually implies the accumulation of time, more precisely, history. In other words, it is the age of the system that is the determining factor for describing the physical processes occurring in the system under consideration. We can say that there is neither the present or the future, but only the evolving past.* P.S. “The direction of the process is always the loss of energy availability.”, Feynman. Thus, it is impossible to measure time even mentally experiment (without the use of clocks, instruments, phenomena ...) without energy consumption. --------------------------- *) - Ancient Roman quantum mechanics: to the question: how many eggs can you eat on an empty stomach? There was only one correct answer: one!; the inscription on the ancient Roman clock: more than you think.
The asymmetry of time actually implies the accumulation of time, more precisely, history, variety. Apparently, the researcher can detect and measure the effect of the aging process in his own frame of reference caused by the phenomenon of global time t(universe)=1/H: ds^2=c^2dт^2=g(00)c^2dt^2=(1-Ht*)c^2dt^2, where the Ht* parameter shows which part of the global the time "elapsed" in its own frame of reference, t* is the measurement time according to the clock of the resting observer, t is the duration of any physical process in its own frame of reference. That is, an observer can measure the increase in the duration of processes in the laboratory frame of reference: dт=[√ g(00)]dt=[√(1-Ht*)]dt~(1-Ht*)dt
I hope at some point Bernardo explains what Lee Smolin was saying as, in the view of this amateur (in the Latin sense of the word), it seems extremely consequential, especially considering the source.
Ok first we need to talk about terminology in the way that “changing” and “creating” are COMPLETELY different….we don’t CHANGE the future…we CREATE it. We cannot CHANGE something that hasn’t happened yet. A completely different concept. Moving on…..
It feels like you're just firing out all of the "gee whiz" ideas without really justifying any of them and without pulling them together into a coherent narrative.
