RE: Reincarnation of the consciousness is inevitable
September 14, 2012 at 8:55 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2012 at 8:59 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Quote:If you want a true definition of physical time then you'd be better speaking to a physicist. I believe I've already stated why I thought that time cannot have a beginning or an end. This is because it seems to me that it is an analytic truth that time cannot have a "before", because the whole notion of "before" implies a TIME before. There needs to be a before for there to be an event of "starting".
No, it certainly is possible for there to exist an ultimate before, prior to which no sensible concept of before is even in theory possible.
If time is to be measured by sequenced events, there can certainly in principle be an signal event before which no individually distinguishable, even in principle, events occurs, and therefore there can be a start to time, prior to which time simple does not exist in any discernible manifestation. Hence that signal event is the start of time. There can also be the last distinguishable, and therefore sequenceable event, and that would be the end of time.
Ask yourself this, what would be time if there were no sequencerble events of any type anywhere?
If there can in principle be existence without time, then it is possible for there to exist an beginning and an ending to time.
If the amount of time between the beginning and the ending of time need not be infinite, then there is no reason to assert everything with non-zero probability of occurring over a finite period of time must have had time to occur.
So there is no reason to humor yourself by asserting reincarnation, however flacidly defined, has any reasonable chance of happening.
