Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Bookmarks and Doomsday

Author:	Dennis Peterson
Posted:	8/17/2000; 7:42:02 AM
Topic:	scriptingNews outline for 8/13/2000
Msg #:	19777 (In response to 19764)
Prev/Next:	19776 / 19778

You are arguing like this: You exist, at a given time Now. The future does not exist. The philosophers, being weird, are arguing like this: The entire history of the universe exists. The entire population of the human species beginning to end, exists. Your consciousness gets randomly dropped into one of those human beings.

I agree with you, but there is one point in their favor: Einstein agrees with them. General relativity says space and time are equivalent, and all of space-time is one big static structure. (Quantum physics doesn't necessarily agree, but it's hard to say because no one agrees on what quantum physics means.)

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