RE: Determinism, Free Will and Paradox
January 20, 2015 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2015 at 12:06 pm by bennyboy.)
(January 20, 2015 at 10:50 am)Alex K Wrote: Again, as I said above, the geometry of special relativity has a defined causal structure even if there is no absolute standard of time scale, and I think this collapse to a singularity is merely an artifact of choosing a mathematically divergent coordinate systemDivergence is beyond my level of understanding in math. Can you explain it in principle?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
Anyway, with regard to the Big Bang, I don't think it really does provide a universal reference of the type I'm talking about. I have no doubt that the universe is 13.7 billion years old relative to the Earth's reference. However, I'm also introducing the idea of subjective relativity: relating the rate at which an organism processes information (measured perhaps by the mean distance that information travels from its senses and through its processing mechanism).
http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...ion-world/
So different creatures, in the same physical frame of reference, are not "moving" through time at the same rate, even though they might be sitting in the same room observing the same events. Which is right, to say that time chugs along at whatever speed it chugs along, and it is the creatures who are experiencing at different rates? Or to say that time is only the logical relation between events, but does not have any intrinsic rate in its own right?
