RE: Oh no not another free will thread.
April 23, 2018 at 2:51 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2018 at 2:53 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(April 23, 2018 at 2:42 pm)henryp Wrote: Why present-ism rather than the Block universe?
It seems odd that all space exists at each time. But not all time exists at each space.
By a block universe do you mean like what Parmenides described?
Quote:That said, I don't know how picking one over the other could be anything more than a wild guess for me.
Well for me it's simply that anything but presentism seems to lead to logical contradictions. To say that all times exist now is to say that the past and the future are happening now which makes no sense because the future is by definition what isn't happening yet and the past is by definition what isn't happening anymore.
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Wikipedia Wrote:According to the growing block universe theory of time (or the growing block view), the past and present exist and the future does not exist.
Oh I don't agree with this at all. The past doesn't exist any more than the future does.
