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Lee Smolin's "Time Reborn" and the Andromeda Paradox
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RE: Lee Smolin's "Time Reborn" and the Andromeda Paradox
(August 13, 2016 at 4:59 pm)Rhythm Wrote:
(August 13, 2016 at 1:28 am)Alex K Wrote: Yes, sure.

Nope.  Might seem like a minor nitpick, but it;s actually pretty relevant...even a -omnipresent- being would have to contend with distance.  So some part of it is experiencing a in y...and another is experiencing b in z...but internally, these two experiences cannot be maintained concurrently..if...for no other reason...than the time it takes a signal  (like a brain wave - or light) to travel between whatever part of it is in y and whatever part of it is in z. Omipresence is silly but a "not even wrong" proposition, omni-experientialism- so far as we can tell-...is demonstrably impossible.

If you insist on a being which is bound in its actions and perception to the limitations matter experiences within the spacetime.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: Lee Smolin's "Time Reborn" and the Andromeda Paradox - by Alex K - August 14, 2016 at 7:49 am

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