As an aside, this is really a dense read, but it seems to me that contemplative practices' claims of no time are, perforce, using the terminology of time . . . doesn't saying we only live in the present use a function of how we define time?
Plus, I'm not sure (I lost you in a few places) how a physical experiment gets extrapolated into what consciousness is. Much like contemplative practices and experiences with psychedelics, we're using a given altered state to reach conclusions about a different state, and saying one is truer than another. Again, not a physicist, and someone who finds most metaphysical claims a bit self-serving and sometimes overreaching, I don't see a clear connection between the experiment and drawing conclusions about consciousness.
Did you not connect sitting-still with being “in the now” before?
It’s like “going to work” while your partner “stays home”, doing lots of…stuff, then returning and thinking “time passed”.
The worker was wearing themselves out. The sitter was gaining pounds and loosing muscle…that’s it.
The world is actually a-lot more like The Sims than many like to admit.
Proof…utterly ridiculous.
This is why I like to call learning remembering - because we know everything already, or have access to it while in the now; everything happens now – it always did:
And how about this: gravity isn’t a weak force. It’s strong, it just has much to focus on - almost enough to use it up.
Prigogine proved that the entropy operator was not continuous across the QM -Classical interface. I think this was in the 1980s. This is huge. It also has implications for General AI. No binary based computing system can likely include this except as an approximation- at least so hope that is true. Thx for the post!
I need to re-read your essay since I'm neither a philosopher, a physicist, nor a buddhist. It did lead me back to Shannon Stirone's https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22150990/2020-time-covid-warp-year-end - which is, in my opinion, a beautiful exploration of more classical concepts of time.
So now I ask myself, If I really want to understand what "Time is what one part of a correlated system does with respect to another part of the same system" means, should I challenge myself to understand the mathematics and science, or should I meditate?
Yay..... I think....
What does this do to determinism?
As an aside, this is really a dense read, but it seems to me that contemplative practices' claims of no time are, perforce, using the terminology of time . . . doesn't saying we only live in the present use a function of how we define time?
Plus, I'm not sure (I lost you in a few places) how a physical experiment gets extrapolated into what consciousness is. Much like contemplative practices and experiences with psychedelics, we're using a given altered state to reach conclusions about a different state, and saying one is truer than another. Again, not a physicist, and someone who finds most metaphysical claims a bit self-serving and sometimes overreaching, I don't see a clear connection between the experiment and drawing conclusions about consciousness.
That’s a very wordy “honey, I’m home…”
Did you not connect sitting-still with being “in the now” before?
It’s like “going to work” while your partner “stays home”, doing lots of…stuff, then returning and thinking “time passed”.
The worker was wearing themselves out. The sitter was gaining pounds and loosing muscle…that’s it.
The world is actually a-lot more like The Sims than many like to admit.
Proof…utterly ridiculous.
This is why I like to call learning remembering - because we know everything already, or have access to it while in the now; everything happens now – it always did:
And how about this: gravity isn’t a weak force. It’s strong, it just has much to focus on - almost enough to use it up.
Prigogine proved that the entropy operator was not continuous across the QM -Classical interface. I think this was in the 1980s. This is huge. It also has implications for General AI. No binary based computing system can likely include this except as an approximation- at least so hope that is true. Thx for the post!
I need to re-read your essay since I'm neither a philosopher, a physicist, nor a buddhist. It did lead me back to Shannon Stirone's https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22150990/2020-time-covid-warp-year-end - which is, in my opinion, a beautiful exploration of more classical concepts of time.
So now I ask myself, If I really want to understand what "Time is what one part of a correlated system does with respect to another part of the same system" means, should I challenge myself to understand the mathematics and science, or should I meditate?