Time & Mind: Was Einstein Wrong About Time?

George Ellis makes sense.

An absolutely wonderful collection of perspectives. Thank you, all.

Sir, why you are you and not someone else? Well, when it become apparent that you would exist, there was a question who will get the job. The problem get solved by itself, as you were the only one who applied.

The biggest problem with Smolin's theory is that he relies on subjective experience to say something about time, which has been proven to be unreliable in so many other (if not all) other aspects of reality. The title of his talk alone reinforces this biased view and he's already shot himself in the foot. Like Daniel Dennett, he thinks something is true because it "feels" that way.

you aren't looking into the past through telescopes. youre looking at now.

It's weird people still think astronomy is a natural science. It's not. There isn't one verified scientific hypothesis constructed in the entire history of astronomy.

Isn’t time just a measurement invention of distance and speed rotation relevant to the Earth and Sun? A form of measurement that helps us relate our sleeping patterns, schedules, events, etc. Why do physicists have a hard time understanding time?
The Ouroboros — Is simply a depiction of our infinite universe… the energy plus matter contained within forever devouring and transforming itself.

It feels like you're just firing out all of the "gee whiz" ideas without really justifying any of them and without pulling them together into a coherent narrative.

Space is not fundamental. COORDINATE time isn't fundamental either. But proper time – the time that defines the sequence of our memories – is fundamental. Our memories come one at a time, and they define a sequence. That is a sort of proper time.

No one has ever seen a tachyon – they've only talked about them. And no one has ever seen a closed timelike curve either.

Just because our model predicts correct results does not mean that every prediction of our model is valid. There is no traveling into the past, because what MAKES something the past is the formation of memories of it. Once those memories are formed, they're formed and they don't go away.

I'm not talking about just "our" memories – I'm talking about the memories of Bernardo Kastrup's single universal consciousness – some of which we consciously share, and some of which we unconsciously share.

"Before the beginning" is an invalid concept – I disagree. Spacetime is simply a coordinate system we invented to allow us to label events. We invented another coordinate system some centuries ago, too – terrestrial latitude and longitude. What's the terrestrial latitude and longitude of Tycho crater on the moon? See? Just because a invented coordinate system doesn't extend to cover something does not mean that something doesn't exist. To say that "before the beginning" is an invalid concept is to assert that spacetime contains all that there is, and that is not necessarily true. It contains all we know of. But with the discovery of entanglement and wormholes we are already starting to see some of spacetime's shortcomings.

I believe mind is fundamental and "the physical world" is just the set of our perceptions. The ones we can agree on – dreams and hallucinations don't count (though dreams do definitively prove that "mind" can cause us to have perceptions we are happy to label "the physical world"). Our minds are not "within" those perceptions – it's like sitting in a theater and watching a movie. You are not in the movie, and the actions that unfold on screen don't "control you." What happens in spacetime, which is just part of a model we've constructed to model our perceptions, doesn't control our minds, either. We have free will and free ability to think that transcends that. I think our minds, collaboratively, control how quantum possibilities become realized history. And if Kastrup is right, that may include ALL quantum processes, including those we associate with inanimate systems, which would be controlled by the residue of the universal consciousness that is not part of any of our dissociated alters. So, free will is what ultimately causes realized fact to emerge from quantum possibilities.

So, no one will ever explain "how mind emerges from physical processes," because mind is OUTSIDE of the physical world. Rather, the physical world emerges from the interactions of our minds.

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If once something is observed then it's solidified in time what explains the Mandela effect? Millions of people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in 1983 but in our reality he lived until 2018 .I am one of the people that remembered him dying I remember my teacher bringing in a TV and there was a parade in his honor. Now more and more there are multiple instances of this sort of thing happening such as there was never a cornucopia on the Fruit of the Loom label but everyone remembers their being one. Or Ed McMahon everyone remembers being the Publishers Clearing House guy but if you look in the record books Publishers Clearing House never had Ed McMahon employed or as a spokesman ever in their records. I would like to know how this is happening on such a mass level to so many millions of people . The only explanation is jumping timelines within our time space continuum or somehow the Multiverse is coming unraveled I don't know..

Live creatures on our planet are intimately and intricately interweaved with the planet's magnetic field and gravity. It is as if they came about by simple organisms feeding on surplus energy produced by rotating planet and evolved to be the same, consumers of surplus energy. Stop the planet- stop the life on it.

I wish they spoke more legibly or allow subtitles

The end point cannot happen if there is no start. There’s no Start point to anything that has an end. Draw a dot for instance on a piece of paper. Simple huh, now imagine the entire universe etc was stored within the dot, then show me where the universe starts and finishes. There is none, urging you have the truth. Human conciousness is the same. So I think that dot could be represented by a singularity. Expansion cannot happen to this as it has no physical size, no distance or time. These are constructs. To give linier structure to a non linier universe. Time is not nature made, it’s a man made construct.

Quantum mechanics and relativity and standard model and big bang all seem to be walking dead. Good for nothing but to impress people and get the next grant. It is almost embarrassing to watch highly intelligent people to waste their lives on praising their respective idols. It feels like we live in some perverted world of transitivity where it was decided that since on occasion some counterintuitive things can be real, anything counterintuitive has to be seriously considered for reality. At the end it becomes a rat race when everybody is engaged into a competition proclaiming the most outrageous phantasy, many of which get funded.