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

by dhw, Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 13:30 (4969 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Balance_Maintained asks me to imagine a movie shot from a million different camera angles, and to ask some questions:-Are all of these movies real? Do the events exist anymore? [...] Do each of the camera angles reflect reality? How can each of the different perspectives be real if they are all different?-I've pinpointed these questions, because in all of them you're emphasizing "reality", but reality is not the point in dispute. A film of an event is not the event itself (see Magritte's painting of a pipe, entitled Ceci n'est pas une pipe), and although you can have as many different perspectives as you like of an object, they will all be perceptions of the object and not the object itself, the one neither more nor less real than the other. But I don't see what connection this has with your subsequent comment:-"I am not implying that one 'now' to the next is not strung together, simply that I do not think that the framework for this mechanism is human's conception of 'Time'."-The million perspectives and the no-longer-existing events have nothing to do with my concept of 'time'. It is the "stringing together" in which the "now" becomes the "then". But as usual there is a danger that I've misunderstood you completely, and so to make matters clear, perhaps you would explain exactly what you think IS humans' conception of time.