Well, there's little doubt that time and change are closely linked. What the exact relationship is baffles me completely but if were to hazard a guess...
That's the problem in my opinion. Suppose the fine-tuned physical parameters for life are like a set of conditions imposed on a group of people. If th...
I haven't read the other posts but this thread has probably been derailed a long time ago. This coronavirus pandemic has proven deadly - thousands hav...
Well, it seems the FTA has a flaw. It claims that the universe is fine tuned for life as a whole but that would mean the universe was fine tuned for m...
The current coronavirus pandemic and its effects may shed light on this issue. Just like the mere fact of going to a school building doesn't make one ...
I'm of the opinion that change is relevant to time only in the sense of time's value and time's perceptibility, having no effect on time itself. 1. Ti...
Indeed, if one gives it some thought, to have a 7 second memory is identical to dying every 7 seconds. I wonder what death would mean to such a person...
I haven't read his works but this is probably what ruffles the feathers of his critics. Readers expect stories worth the pages on which they're writte...
I was under the impression that evil grew out of free will. Isn't that the standard theological stance on evil's origins? The ultimate prize was freed...
The problem I see with technical definitions of words insofar as they're radically different from the conventional lexical definitions of those words ...
This is probably a very parochial interpretation of what you're getting at but it seems to me that though the explanatory chain is an infinite regress...
Good point but what's the purpose of memory? Is it to allow you to experience pleasure repeatedly with each recollection of a pleasurable experience? ...
It seems the hallmark of impatience is excessive activity or restlessness; perhaps the word anxious fits the bill in capturing the essence of impatien...
Speaking for myself, and hopefully shedding some light on what you presume to be a conundrum, life is worth living for it's a prerequisite for pleasur...
The idea of a beginning isn't a problem for the notion of past, present, & future. What follows are my findings in this regard: Suppose time had a beg...
If time is a potential infinity and it had no beginning and time as an actual infinity too has no beginning, there's no difference between actual and ...
Is time material? If it isn't material and last I checked it wasn't then, nothing will happen to time when the universe is reversed back in time to th...
Thanks for replying. The principle of sufficient reason you touched upon is germane to my point in the form of the argument for god from first cause a...
Truth be told, I'm just exploring the topic. Nothing definitive that I can call mine. As for your comments, all I have to say is that barring an actua...
I get your point that relativity may play a significant role but I'm basing my arguments on the same facts that show the Big Bang took place 13.8 bill...
I never said that the negation of "X is necessary" is "not-X is necessary". You said the following: I don't have a problem with #1 but look at #2: Eit...
Firstly, the clock gedanken experiment can't be dismissed so easily. For your consideration I'll restate it here: The clock runs normally but the univ...
Make that two of us. The clock thought experiment makes sense though. If we could reverse time i.e. make the universe travel backwards in time and hav...
I agree with #1. It's a premise in my OP. #2 would be false only if both disjuncts are false i.e. time necessarily had a beginning is false AND time n...
This is a contradiction. Either time has a beginning or time doesn't have a beginning and to say neither of them are necessarily true is to say that b...
Sorry for glossing over some of the finer points you two have made but I want to run the following by you two: Imagine a special clock that runs backw...
Indeed, that is my aim here - to show the logical necessity that time can't have a beginning. And yet you don't provide anything that can be considere...
The notion of luck is rendered irrelevant if adequate time is available and by "adequate" I mean time in terms of googol years or larger. Even events ...
I'm making (trying to) the case that time has no beginning. Every time we have ever dealt with can be put into the framework of past, present and futu...
The confusion is entirely my fault. Let me try again. Can you give me an example of a present (now) moment which doesn't have a past? You can't and if...
What does it mean to say time began with the Big Bang? It means that there was no such thing as a time before the Big Bang. In other words, here we ha...
I had to reply :smile: Yes, that I'm beginning to notice. Anyway, how does the present come to be? There are 3 to consider: past, present and future. ...
Good question. Time meaning that which is measured by a clock and beginning in the sense of coming into existence. Did that which a clock measures com...
@"christian2017"@"tim wood"The gist of the commments in this thread is that a time before the alleged beginning (the Big Bang) is incoherent. The all-...
@"Metaphysician Undercover"@"tim wood"@"Tim3003"@"180 Proof"@"jorndoe"@"christian2017"@"3017amen" Imagine, for the moment, that we have a clock that's...
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