like a river May 27, 2008
Posted by ocmpoma in : other , trackbackOne of the things which crops up on the forums from time to time (no pun intended) is time — usually as an outgrowth to some theist asking about what happened “before” the big bang. At OB, Eliezer Yudkowsky has a post up which touches very directly on one of my (almost completely intuitional and certainly speculative) takes on time — that it doesn’t exist as we intuitively feel that it does; that it’s not really as necessary for physics to function as we might at first blush think it is.
The post is much better, of course, than anything I could ever write on the topic; after reading it, I’ve moved from thinking of time as not flowing at all — a simulated stream in a model train set which we only imagine is moving — to a river that is indeed flowing, but within which we are completely submerged, unable to pull ourselves out of the current — a river that exists, in its entirety, all the way from the headwaters to the mouth, all at once.
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