RE: Determinism, Free Will and Paradox
January 20, 2015 at 8:29 pm
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2015 at 8:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 20, 2015 at 7:19 pm)bennyboy Wrote: It does if you consider how fast time "moves" for an unconscious person, a dead one, or a non-existent one.Those three things don't have anything to do with what you're referencing. Dilation isn't an issue of whether or not you're conscious, dead, or non-existent. Conscious, unconscious, living, dead, made up or not yet made up.....put em all in one room going the same speed with the same gravity and time will pass the same for all. The only difference between any will be their -experience of it-, but just because they experience it differently that shouldn't be taken to mean or imply that this is somehow equivalent to dilation. There are other very well established explanations for these differences.
Time doesn't seem to progress at variable rates in instances of dilation...it actually does. It's not a subjective experience, even though what is being experienced must, by necessity, be experienced subjectively. On the other end of this - referencing subjective experience in another field of study, just because time seems to be progressing at a variable rates, doesn't mean that this is the same as dilation, or that it actually -is- progressing at variable rates. Different uses of shared terms.
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