Simon Paynton

I always see general intelligence as “grunt power” or how quickly someone can process information and draw new connections.

West End Girls?

Unseen wrote:

If the present is an illusion and we are already where we are headed, we are not really traveling.

We are travelling along a 4-dimensional path, through spacetime, at the speed of light.  If we have velocity in the space dimensions, our local time velocity slows down.

The present moment is any point along that path, which suggests…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

the present being merely an illusion in which nothing is actually happening.

I’m sure I’ve heard it said, but I can’t get it confirmed, that we are constantly travelling through spacetime at the speed of light.

Simon Paynton wrote:

you’re outside of the concept of “simultaneous”. You can see it below you, within the universe, but you are not experiencing it.

But then, on the other hand, I thought it is true that there is no single frame of reference for time over the whole universe.

If you could step outside the 4-D universe, you would be outside of space and time.  Therefore, where you are, you’re outside of the concept of “simultaneous”.  You can see it below you, within the universe, but you are not experiencing it.

It’s a hypothetical dimension – a straight line, orthogonal to the other four.

“Simultaneously” is a property of the time dimension, no. 4, and the space dimensions: something happens at the same time in multiple spatial locations.  Now, I thought that there is no such thing as a universal standard time in the universe, only relative time frames, or something.

Dimension no. 5 would be neither space nor time, but a way of…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

I have questions, the first of which is this: If the future is already out there, then isn’t just a kind of past, according to how most of us think of the past as a “been there done that already” kind of thing? Is there a future-past in addition to the familiar past-past?

It works if you think of spacetime as a 4-dimensional lands…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:

My take on human nature here is that we evolved with both the alpha male aggressiveness of chimps, and the milder, feminine nature of bonobos. Both kinds of behaviors are emotion-based, rather than cognitively-enhanced forms of self-reflection, with intellectual discourse only newly-enabled by invention of high level…

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lol, is Star Trek your religion?