Time's Arrow; a series of nows (General)

by David Turell , Sunday, December 11, 2016, 15:34 (2902 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: So what happened to cause and effect? What happened to memory? There is no ‘after death’ does not mean there is no death. And if the death of the physical body is real, so is the birth of the physical body and the growth and ageing of the physical body, and so is every event that happens in the “now”. So what does all of this actually tell us? I’ll tell you what it tells me. My theory of the universe is not biocentric, and I do not believe my life and consciousness create the reality around me. I believe the sun, the moon, the stars exist independently of my life and consciousness, and my perception of them, no matter how subjective it may be, is not my creation of them. Whether the energy of my great-grandmother continues to exist or not is absolutely meaningless to me unless someone tells me whether by “energy” they mean my great-grandmother’s individual identity. If the death of her physical body means the death of her identity, then as far as I am concerned, she has ‘gone’. I agree that time is a series of nows, but that does not in any way “demolish” the process of physical birth-life-death, or any other “reality” that follows the pattern of cause and effect. And cause and effect means that each now is an after that follows a before. That is the sequence I call “time”.

I cannot disagree with your analysis. The problem he presents is a different interpretation of our reality and quantum reality in that he is viewing a living body as a vessel for consciousness, which can still exist after the body has died. That much fits my beliefs.