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Originally Posted by gzhpcu
Einstein once said, "For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent".
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Rather poignantly, he wrote that in a letter to the family of his old friend Michele Besso, expressing his feelings about Besso's death. The quotation above is preceded by "Now he has departed this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing."
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Originally Posted by gzhpcu
Our conscious experience seems to sweep through the slices.
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And the "seeming" can come from the fact that each space-time instance of our consciousness codes up its "present" interactions and its "past" interactions, but not its "future" interactions. Any moment of my conscious experience contains a sense of an expanding past, as I remember the past, and remember remembering the past.
Grant Hutchison