RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on?
March 27, 2015 at 12:03 pm
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2015 at 12:03 pm by JuliaL.)
(March 27, 2015 at 11:46 am)Faith No More Wrote: Part of his kind of reminds me of the other night when I was trying to wrap my brain around just what exactly the present is. I mean, I understand the past and the future, as they appear to be clearly defined, but every attempt to pinpoint just what the present is kept slipping into the past!It gets worse....always.
We each of us have special circuitry that tries to keep now current. Because of the propagation delays in nerves, a simultaneous stimulus that occurs on your neck arrives sooner than one from your foot by an interval that would be significant given the processing speeds our wetware. The cerebellum serves as a bunch of programmable delay lines to coordinate the process so that discovering now is less of a problem.
So is now the same for your foot as your head? Or is this an illusion maintained to keep us upright. Degradation in coordination functions are part of the suite of delightful changes that make us more clumsy and accident prone in old age.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
