Simon Mathews
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months agoThe UN stated out with noble ideals but it has lost a lot of respect. It was never a moral body, just a diplomatic one that existed to keep states talking to each other. We will never get moral clarity out of a system where Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, Russia, and liberal democracies all get equal seats at the table. At best we get a consensus of…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months ago@Jake I can’t disagree with any of your comment regarding intelligence, and I particularly like the capitalised Actual Intelligence. Really good food for thought.
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agoTrump’s inner Vlad the Impaler is coming out. He has hand-picked others who want to please him by executing terroristic policies. American human beings can be officially demoted to untrainable-dog level value. Vermin. Will SCOTUS also keep supporting him?
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 months, 1 week ago
I am not “me”, an unchanging physical entity. I am a sequence of highly similar spacetime regions whose internal structure overlaps. I once described myself as a “constantly merging shadow copy”. That is I am the person I was yesterday plus some incremental changes. Keep that idea going and each day (or minute, hour) I am a different person.…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 months, 1 week ago
Question for block universe supporters. That is definitely me 🙂
We don’t experience “motion through time.” We accumulate records and memories and have stable correlations between them. My brain at one spacetime location contains records of other locations. (The “block” is the four-dimensional spacetime structure). Nothing in block univers…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agoPanpsychism is an attempt to avoid “consciousness from nothing” by baking mind-like properties into the foundations of physics. That is almost like an argument for Creationism. For me, consciousness is an emergent property, not a fundamental physical property. It is not present in parts that can be assembled. In the same way that water mole…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 months, 1 week ago
Question for block universe supporters. If moving forward through time is an illusion, why can’t we have the illusion of moving backward through time? It should make no difference, right?
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agoThanks Reg!
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agoHave a great week everyone!
It only took one monkey to create the entire works of Shakespeare. His first name was William. (rtff)
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week ago-9F….wow…stay safe and keep warm!!
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agoYou should get to see the Northern Lights this time around – tonight in much of the USA.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agojakelafort wrote:
I thought as mass approaches speed of light it becomes infinite?I think that mass becomes infinite as it approaches the speed of light through space, not time.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 months, 1 week ago
I have so much more to write on this. I will try over the weekend. Just finalizing a project for work tomorrow, so maybe Sunday.
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 months, 1 week ago
I’m at the surface level of these philosophies and physics, trying to look in. Is this just one loaf of bread, or is the next slice still unpredictable due to quantum probabilities/improbabilities? Do the ends of the loaf connect, looking more like a donut? In a many-worlds view, do an infinite number of future slices bifurcate into an infinite…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agojakelafort wrote:
And if big bang is a beginning at what point does blocking become the nature of the thing as a whole?It’s a shape. I can’t visualise something in 4D, but I presume we have length, breadth, height, and time. Eventually, if there’s heat death, then events stop happening and time runs out.
Inside the shape, local events exist a…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie posted an update 5 months, 1 week ago
You are standing at your refrigerator, feeling the cold hit your feet after opening the freezer door.
Does it mean that the world is actually cooler than climatologists say?
Or maybe everything in the freezer is melting?
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agojakelafort wrote:
Does it follow that the universe is eternal?You’re talking about a finite 4-dimensional block. It must have edges. At one edge is the Big Bang. At the other end is heat death, or whatever its terminating fate is. In between, is the history of the universe and all its internal events.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 months, 1 week ago
Some more thoughts……The human concept of Time is difficult to shake off. It feels intuitive but this is only because we feel an innate sense of Time because we have evolved a hard-wired temporal sensitivity. Marking the seasons and changes in the weather helped us survive. We even have a circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle (as do all…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 months, 1 week ago
Almost. In the block universe, things absolutely do happen. Stars explode or conversations happen. But these only happen locally (within regions of spacetime). What does not happen is a global update of reality. Another way of putting it (I am also explaining it to myself as I write this) is that nothing happens to the Universe as a whole but…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 months, 1 week ago
Unseen wrote:
The block universe gives an unbelievable account of experience. If you take it seriously, nothing actually happens, however experience consists of a cluttered stream of experiences.Yet, we travel through spacetime at the speed of light. So, the block universe could exist. But I am still unable to connect the “self” with “now”.
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