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Can the Universe Exist without consciousness?
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RE: Can the Universe Exist without consciousness?
(August 3, 2011 at 10:07 pm)theVOID Wrote:
(August 3, 2011 at 12:31 pm)Napoleon Wrote: Time is a human construct anyway. What makes you think that by having conciousness things suddenly matter?

No, it isn't... All the best physics suggests that time is a dimension, it is just as real as the spatial dimensions, our experience of it differs in that we cannot freely traverse it, we are pulled along with the change in what could be called "plank frames" representing the smallest possible units of change - I suspect that the passage of time is directly related to the increase in entropy in the universe, because entropy always increases and information is always conserved it would not be possible to reverse time, that would reverse entropy, and you could not go back in time because your interaction with the past would destroy the information conserved from your past - You would change the information from that moment in time all the way forwards - the information from your past, the one without your presence in some prior moment of time, would be lost.

I meant time as in the measurement of time, by what we see as an hour, a day, a second etc. Those labels were created by us. My own fault for not specifiying.
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RE: Can the Universe Exist without consciousness? - by Napoléon - August 4, 2011 at 10:36 am

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