Are you sure it is logically impossible to have [spaceless] and timeless universes?
Dear me no! I have no idea if such a universe is impossible. I’m not even terribly confident that this universe has space or time.
I am pretty sure that space and time (or something like them) are a necessary condition on experience, however. Maybe they’re just in our heads, but it’s nevertheless necessary that they, or something like them, be in our heads. Maybe some other kind of creature thinks in terms of space, time, and fleegle, or just fleegle, time, and blop, or just blop and nizz. But I’m confident that such things will all have some common features, namely being something like a context for a multiplicity. I mean in the way time is a context for seeing this, followed by that, and space is a context for seeing this in that in some relation, etc.
Without something like this, it seems to me experience would always (except there’s no time) only be of one (except an idea of number would never come up) thing, in which case it wouldn’t be rich enough to be an experience. Or experience would be of nothing, but that’s the same problem.
So there might be universes of nothing but qualia (or, really, quale) but it wouldn’t be a universe in which there are any experiencing or thinking things. And if that’s so, the whole business is a bit incoherent, since we need an experiencer to have a quale.
Dear me no! I have no idea if such a universe is impossible. I’m not even terribly confident that this universe has space or time.
I am pretty sure that space and time (or something like them) are a necessary condition on experience, however. Maybe they’re just in our heads, but it’s nevertheless necessary that they, or something like them, be in our heads. Maybe some other kind of creature thinks in terms of space, time, and fleegle, or just fleegle, time, and blop, or just blop and nizz. But I’m confident that such things will all have some common features, namely being something like a context for a multiplicity. I mean in the way time is a context for seeing this, followed by that, and space is a context for seeing this in that in some relation, etc.
Without something like this, it seems to me experience would always (except there’s no time) only be of one (except an idea of number would never come up) thing, in which case it wouldn’t be rich enough to be an experience. Or experience would be of nothing, but that’s the same problem.
So there might be universes of nothing but qualia (or, really, quale) but it wouldn’t be a universe in which there are any experiencing or thinking things. And if that’s so, the whole business is a bit incoherent, since we need an experiencer to have a quale.
Are you using experience to mean visual experience by any chance? How much spatial information are you getting from hearing?
PS your dogmatic Kantianism is now taken as read.
Tapping out.