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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 months 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 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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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months agoJust some heart-warming news to be aware or not…
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months 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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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months 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 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 ago-9F….wow…stay safe and keep warm!!
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months agoThe lights may be dimmed as the worst storm ever is forecast.
So severe it may snap the ship in two!
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months agoYou should get to see the Northern Lights this time around – tonight in much of the USA.
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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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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agoSimon,”
It occurs to me we have no clue. And the ones who are educated only slightly greater enlightenment…maybe…
I thought as mass approaches speed of light it becomes infinite?
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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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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agoSimon,
If the universe is a block that does not register local events then why would the big bang be an exception?
And if big bang is a beginning at what point does blocking become the nature of the thing as a whole?
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agoJust reread Reg’penultimate entry & it makes sense to me except that i don’t think it follows that humans experience something that is subjective in our perception of time. Einstein allowed us to revolutionize our understanding of time. And yet that does not alter the reality of physical laws of time and the physical evidence that seems to be…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agoIf fossils from age of dinos appear near the surface of earth and recent fossils below and without intervention or natural explanations then i will consider the notion time aint nothing. There is order precisely because there is time. The endless concatenation of events, of cause and effect, are consistent with linear notion of time that we…[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
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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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agoWaiting, anticipating…
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agoEnco,
It is all recorded in the book of life.
Imagine day after day this white apparation of an English woman harassing a troop of chimps in Tanzania. Yeah they were annoyed but like clockwork she approached and gradually reduced distance between observer and observed. At long last she was tolerated until they were on level of acquantainces in…[Read more]
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