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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  Perhaps, but the ideas are still being tested. What do you think thousands of neurophysiologists are doing? |
I think they're testing various ideas, as you say. I just don't see how this vindicates materialism.
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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Sorry, me no get. |
In physics there is no reason "now" should be "now", and not 10 years ago, or 100 years in the future; nor for that matter, that time should flow forwards and not backwards!
In short, time - or rather the fact that we experience a "now" - is a strange anomaly in physics. "Now" could just as well be 2 years ago or one billion years in the future.
Now, why
is it really that we feel that we're in 2008 now and not, say, 2011 or 2005? Physics has no answer. But think about it, isn't it
consciousness that causes us to feel that we're here now? For a materialist, it should be a strange conclusion that something that's supposed to equal the brain - a thing that is indifferent as to whether it's 2008, 2007 or 2009 - should somehow "decide" that now is 2008!