Or B theory just isn’t that good. If physical reductionism is the correct theory of mind, so that the mind is just another part of the block, it’s difficult to see where so much as an illusion of temporal flow comes from.
Some versions of the A-theory might technically be compatible with special relativity.
Well, Copenhagen is compatible with SR (collapse is nonlocal, but cannot be used for nonlocal signaling), and it allows you to identify a moving present moment as where collapse is occurring.
If physical reductionism is the correct theory of mind, so that the mind is just another part of the block, it’s difficult to see where so much as an illusion of temporal flow comes from.
No? Seems trivially easy to see, and I don’t think reductionism matters here. If I were an immaterial Cartesian soul plugged in to the Matrix, and the Matrix ran on block-universe physics, the same arguments for ‘it feels like there’s an objective Now but really this is just an implication of my being where I am in the block universe’ would hold. The argument is about your relationship to other spatial and temporal slices of the Matrix, not about the nature of your brain or mind.
Well, Copenhagen is compatible with SR (collapse is nonlocal, but cannot be used for nonlocal signaling), and it allows you to identify a moving present moment as where collapse is occurring.
On the (false) collapse interpretation of QM, I can cause collapses; but so can my brother Fred who lives on Mars. Which of our experiences coincide with ‘the present’, if there is a single unique reference-frame-independent Present Moment?
Reductionism is critical to understanding block universe theory , because if you allow a nonohysycal soul or wotnot the implications can be prevented from following.
‘it feels like there’s an objective Now but really this is just an implication of my being where I am in the block universe’ would hold.
If the immaterial soul had the property of being wholly located at one 4D point in the block at a time then you could recover the notion of a distinguished and moving Now..but that isn’t block universe theory, it’s some sort of hybrid. In actual block universe theory, you’re just a 4D section of a 4D block, and your entire history exists at once.
You don’t believe in souls and you do believe in reductionism, so you can’t use souls to rescue block universe theory.
On the (false) collapse interpretation of QM, I can cause collapses; but so can my brother Fred who lives on Mars. Which of our experiences coincide with ‘the present’, if there is a single unique reference-frame-independent Present Moment?
Or B theory just isn’t that good. If physical reductionism is the correct theory of mind, so that the mind is just another part of the block, it’s difficult to see where so much as an illusion of temporal flow comes from.
Well, Copenhagen is compatible with SR (collapse is nonlocal, but cannot be used for nonlocal signaling), and it allows you to identify a moving present moment as where collapse is occurring.
No? Seems trivially easy to see, and I don’t think reductionism matters here. If I were an immaterial Cartesian soul plugged in to the Matrix, and the Matrix ran on block-universe physics, the same arguments for ‘it feels like there’s an objective Now but really this is just an implication of my being where I am in the block universe’ would hold. The argument is about your relationship to other spatial and temporal slices of the Matrix, not about the nature of your brain or mind.
On the (false) collapse interpretation of QM, I can cause collapses; but so can my brother Fred who lives on Mars. Which of our experiences coincide with ‘the present’, if there is a single unique reference-frame-independent Present Moment?
Reductionism is critical to understanding block universe theory , because if you allow a nonohysycal soul or wotnot the implications can be prevented from following.
If the immaterial soul had the property of being wholly located at one 4D point in the block at a time then you could recover the notion of a distinguished and moving Now..but that isn’t block universe theory, it’s some sort of hybrid. In actual block universe theory, you’re just a 4D section of a 4D block, and your entire history exists at once.
You don’t believe in souls and you do believe in reductionism, so you can’t use souls to rescue block universe theory.
I said that collapse is nonlocal.