RE: Presentism vs Eternalism
March 12, 2016 at 6:44 am
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2016 at 6:55 am by Panatheist.
Edit Reason: clarifications
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(March 12, 2016 at 6:39 am)ignoramus Wrote: sometimes, the simple obvious answer is the correct one...
That may not be the same for everyone. I tend to believe intuitively that everything past present and future is "now" somewhere in the universe, that we live in a Block Space reality, but I can't fully articulate why. I remember I was thinking about the length of a string at the time the thought first struck me. (Who knows what I was thinking?) I believed that before I actually heard of the idea of a Block space universe. And it's difficult for me to imagine my "now" existing or becoming without a relation to a real past and future somewhere. I don't know the reasoning behind it -- it's intuition, something that's "obvious" to me (though not necessarily the most accurate model of reality), my gut feeling. I assume most people feel differently. It's something I'm about to begin reading up on, although I don't think I can ever be sure what is the most accurate description of reality.
edit: had to clean up a really clumsy post