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That is true - causality is just an axiom - derived from empirically observed behaviour. - The micro world may truly never be fully understood (due to...

Obviously people have different opinions (see for example the discussion on causeless effects going on). What are your objections to the (revised) PSR...

The first document is quite an interesting read - thanks. He makes quite a spirited defence of determinism and Bohmian mechanics. I've pulled out a fe...

- No-one has ever observed directly a virtual particle, they theoretical concepts only indeed the theory says they will be unobservable - They are bet...

Thats a little depressing. I personally see intelligent life inherently good (on average), and given time, as society improves, this should tend from ...

What specifically did you disagree with in my comments - I would like to know if I've made a wrong statement.

I'm not sure I follow. The illusion is what is perceived - so it must be identical to what is perceived?

I'm not claiming anything - I don't understand it well enough to do more than speculate.

I think that the claim is that the illusion of movement exists in our minds. When the image changes, the afterimage of the previous moments remains as...

- At time t0, I see a completely still image - At time t1, I see a different completely still image - It is a different version of the brain at t1 to ...

Interesting point, a few notes: - The act of the creation (of logic or anything else) requires logic. So God cannot of created logic. - Logic constrai...

The movement is just an illusion if you treat time like a spacial dimension - with that way of thinking about it - there is no movement. Parmenides' v...

The BB does not have to be creation ex nihilo - there are two options that get around that problem: - The Zero Energy Universe Hypothesis (https://en....

If we switch to one spacial dimension only then on a 2D graph, this could be represented by a point (the stationary observer) and a line (the fly movi...

Well reasoned counter arguments would be nice instead of waffle.

I don't have two accounts here. I wish you best of luck with your conditions.

But movement just becomes an illusion when you regard time as a spacial dimension - imagine a series of photos laid out in front of you that show the ...

From a 4d spacetime perspective, all 'nows' would seem dynamic - it is always the case that now has just become then - so each now seems dynamic - but...

But you always experience what you are experiencing. You always belief now is now. So each version of you in 4d spacetime thinks now is now. So we can...

In the model I've been talking about (moving spotlight), there is a cursor of time that changes but everything else is static. That model might not be...

What has changed is the cursor of time has moved onto a different version of the person with a different view of a different 'now'. But the past perso...

But at any given moment, we are static and our view is static. Then there is the next moment, the view is different but we and the view are still stat...

My knowledge of QM is very limited, but I think that the wave function collapses to a 'particle' when measured - at least for particles like the photo...

Not sure what you mean? Imagine sitting still in front of window watching the world go by. The view changes but you do not. So we would be part of rea...

If we only perceive part of reality (now) but all of reality actually exists in some unchanging form (past, present, future) then change would seem to...

I think that there would be an unchanging, timeless aspect to the environment I mentioned - it would support uncreated brute facts. But when a brute f...

It could be the timeless environment is like growing block universe maybe. So part of it has permanent, unchanging existence, but it can 'grow' to all...

It could be that the wider universe is a different type of container to spacetime with different rules. My argument is the existing 'forever' in time ...

I think that time has a start so something physical changed when we went from a no-time to time situation, so time is something physical (as in a cont...

It is a challenge I admit. I think that the human race may have a limited understanding of reality - we are familiar only with spacetime and 'spacetim...

I should have said: 'to be X in time, something has to start X'. Things outside of time do not have a temporal start or end, they are not created or d...

If something is bigger than everything possible, then it expands, then it cannot have have been bigger than everything possible to begin with. I am a ...

I think that 'potential infinity' is a very useful concept in science/maths. It is 'actual infinity' that bothers me. The universe expanding and the u...

So he is eternal and travels back in time forever counting. From our perspective - it has all actually happened - it is history - every number has bee...

Thanks. I am not sure what size the actual universe is - very large but I suspect it must be finite in both time and space. An idea I've been playing ...

As I already mentioned, a cyclical universe still needs a start of time - something has to set the 'now' cursor of time in motion around the circle of...

In general: 'to be X something has to start X' works for everything - counting, talking, spinning, oscillating and ultimately existing. Infinity does ...

My argument does not rely on the PSR, but I think an altered version of the PSR is supportive of my argument: - Everything in time has a reason - Noth...

That's the crux of my argument.

To clarify, I mean spacetime cannot have existed 'forever' - nothing can exist 'forever' within time - if you disagree with this statement, you should...

I'm not sure where your comments went. Maybe the spam filter got them - you could ask the moderator. Still my reply is: I think that matter and energy...

Circular time is an interesting possibility. I think there is something different from 'now' compared to past and future - else we would perceive now/...

Yes, the Big Bang is conventionally seen as the start of spacetime.

Yes I have perhaps not made myself clear. If we talk about spacetime as the thing that was created in the Big Bang, then there is a wider universe tha...

The cause of the Big Bang is not known - all we have is an impossible prediction of the singularity (infinite density) from general relativity. The in...

The start of time would give everything an initial state from which it could derives its subsequent states - it would give everything its 'realness'. ...

A start of time.

I think it is not necessary to fill space (as in a space-filling polyhedron like a cube). I am more imagining a grid of zero dimensional points in spa...

In this instance, I am referring to finite distances of space. If a finite distance of space is also discrete then it cannot be decomposed into infini...

A piece of space is discrete if it allows only a finite number of possible positions (points). So I've assumed an infinite number of possible position...