The Illusion of Time (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, June 19, 2010, 13:54 (5060 days ago) @ David Turell

David,
> And our reality is not just at this moment. I can go back to the past in my memories; I can tell you the first memory in my life at the age of 2 years 4 months, and I can still see the scene in my mind's eye, in fact two scenes. -That past doesn't exist. Again--I reiterate--only "measurements" (or "observations" if you will) of the event exist. But it's not the event itself; light from the cosmos, a memory in your head--are ghosts of something long since dead. Or taken another way--all you have is a memory, that event and that day at 2yrs and 4mos is something you can never go back to, because at all times you're in "now."-And as a medical scientist you should also know that memory cannot be trusted; multiple studies have been done that suggest that as humans, we remember what we want to remember. 5 witnesses to a car crash can have a dramatically different take on the entire incident. This happened to my wife and I back in '02. We were behind a guy that got hit, we saw him move forward on a green arrow. Everyone else saw him running a red. I used to subscribe to American Psychologist, and at that time (ironically) they ran an article on just such a phenomenon. One theory is that our brain only remembers a few details and then "recreates" the memory on recall; not stores it the way we think it would with a computer. -> And this is just as you insist the UI should have.
You say we cannot reason about the UI, but if the universe is designed as you claim, then I argue that indeed we can. Because if the universe is designed there is a few things that we CAN say we know about it, just by looking at its design.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"