onycho,
Why is it a delusion? I communicate with you. This communication is in my past and your future. Even if we are in the same room. The parts of our bodies are in the same situation. That which defines us, also limits us. catch22.
***How certain are you that you and your solid body are now communicating with me through the world-wide-web? How certain are you that in your past you communicated with me and that I am now communicating with you in your future?
----Contextually certain.
Is our time relative to us here and now or are we experiencing time from a quantum perspective? I feel that if we sometimes look outside of our catch 22 box, we can see a completely different reality now redefined by many of our theoretical physicist friends. There seems to be no dichotomy when we see our existence in world of quantum mechanics
=Quantum understanding must still be filtered through the biological calculus.
***If you presume the universe is not bounded but in equilibrium, then what would prevent the shedding of energy and matter out of the universe?
=There is no outside. It is infinite. The only limit is the horizon line of how far light can travel. All region are exchanging energy with where ever they can.
The Big Bang presumes nothing about winding down or being in equilibrium or continually expanding as expressed by conflicting cosmologist opinions.
=It only presumes a beginning. Where was that energy borrowed from?
The doppler, ‘red shift’ cosmological constant and Big Bang background radiation events are affected by so many variables that no certainty is viable. But all this is based on a reality that the human mind perceives your catch 22 quandary.
=My getting out of bed this morning was affected by a lot of variables, but, in sum, it was easier to get out than stay in. Logic follows the path of least resistance.
****In our reality how can photon particles be concentrated by a lens? The lens appears to either break the photon down into its basic color constituents or direct the photons into a powerful laser beam which increases the effects of the photon beam exponentially.
=I'm referring to a magnification lense, not a prism.
What makes you believe that reality cannot be an absolute? It may not be our absolute reality but it is absolutely real or there would be no awareness or even a delusion of human consciousness.
=The absolute lacks all distinguishing features. Earlier you asked the question as to how I know I exist, now you state existence as an axiom.
It may be objectively absolute, but any potential distinction/comprehension/observation, etc. is subjective, therefore not absolute.
****If reality is truly nothing more than an illusion from the perspective of our ingenious construction of subatomic particles, then both our objective and subjective comprehension would neither unconditional nor absolute.
=Agreed.
Circumstances that defied comprehension.
**** Excellent…. Until and unless the reality of existence is known to our cognitive awareness all of nature is beyond our comprehension.
=Mortality is like being in a well lit room and looking out a dark window. All you see are reflections of what's inside. As the room darknens, you start to see shadows flitting by outside. then when you die, the glass breaks.
Free-will is a contradiction of terms. Will implies an extension of purpose, motivation, etc. Free implies lack of connection to prior motivation. "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." KK
****Not so.
=I'm simply pointing out that it's an oxymoron.
Many persons have argued that physical determinism poses a threat to the existence of free will are, I believe, still operating with the remnants of the theory that laws of nature are akin to inviolable prescriptions. They have dropped the Prescriber (i.e. God) out of their view of natural laws, but they still persevere with the view that laws of nature 'act like' prescriptions. ... They take their truth from the way the world is. They don't 'force' the world to be any particular way at all.
=I agree with you. Order is a subjective construct. Without perspective, which is the definition of subjective, there is no standard to determine what is order and what is chaos. The problem is that once you have that standard(will), than you need to stick by it, or lose it. So if you have the freedom to choose any standard, than you have no standard.
=As you say, laws and principles are like the forms they help define, constructs of ever more basic ones and without the territory of reality, there is no map of laws.
****As I understand special relativity Einstein postulates that time should be thought of as another dimension. He noted that traditionally we thought of motion being divided amongst the 3 traditional axes. For example (from The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene) the time it takes a car going at a constant velocity to go from a start to finish line will be one value if he travels perpendicular to the start/finish lines, and the time interval will increase if he begins to travel in a diagonal line through the start/finish lines. Similarly Einstein thought an objects motion can also have a vector portion in the "time" axis.
=Motion is relative, not absolute. Since any object is moving against relative context. Just as the Earth falls toward a dropped rock, proportionally, context moves toward the object. So, if you consider an objects motion as a dimension of time, than the context necessarily constitutes an opposing direction of time.
He noted that the limit of velocity is light speed. If you are at rest (relatively), all of your motion is used in the time dimension. Therefore, you don't move, but you age. If you begin to move, the motion in the time dimension decreases (time slows for you, as has been proven experimentally), but motion increases in the spatial dimensions. If you are going light speed all of your possible velocity is going through space, with no motion through the time dimension. In this last case, isn't this where time is frozen at one instant? Photons do not age. They travel the speed of light throughout the universe, and exist infinitely unless they are absorbed.
Because the photons “clock” freezes and they exist while at one instant in their time doesn’t this refute the fact that time is a dimension and at least not static?
=Time slows at velocity because the combined speed of the electron and the motion can't exceed the speed of light, which means that at the speed of light there is no structure. The photon's clock doesn't freeze because it is unchanging in the first place. It's the atom's clock that slows.
That is what I mean by space not being fully explained by three dimensions. Any reference is subjective and three dimensions are a reference.
****How about space not being fully explained by ANY real dimensions as our point of reference is totally subjective. Ergo no reference of perceived dimensions can be valid.
=It doesn't have to be absolute to be valid.
**** A state of CHANGE is measurable and not absolute zero.
=Therefore change cannot be described as "unchanging".
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
=If there is nothing against which it is weighed, there is no motion.
regards,
brodix