Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Do you see “now” as a real moving present sweeping along the line or a a point of access within a fixed structure.

I understand it to mean “now” is local to you. But that doesn’t mean it moves. It just means your current brain state only has access to one region of your worldline. “Now” is real as perspective b…

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Fellow Unbelievers:

Here’s a reminder that “The Good Old Days Weren’t Always Good”:

Right Chemistry: America’s healthier past is no more than a myth
There was no era in which Americans were healthier than now, except in a romanticized imagination.

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Reg:

I’m still waiting for the killer app that comes from the notion that time is not fundamental. If there isn’t one, then this is all just parlor entertainment, not science.

And there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

“Now is where I am now, in my timeline.”

Great…that is compatible with relativity. There is a subtle distinction to be made. Do you think “now” is a physical feature of reality….or is it a local perspective feature made by an observer within reality?

Yes, “now” is always local to an observer. You are local to “here” in your “now”. That is how…[Read more]

DHS demanding identity details from social networks of users who criticize ICE, Trump, et al.

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