Comments on Soul Physics: Possible Positions on the Passage of Time

The Menger sponge spacetime is a cool idea. It's a...

2009-02-07T17:29:00.000-05:00

The Menger sponge spacetime is a cool idea. It's a compact spacetime! However, it's ridiculously discontinuous. This is weird, but I think the idea is worth taking seriously. It certainly seems unlikely that there could ever be an experiment establishing the continuity (let alone the analyticity!) of spacetime.

I think the anti-block is the most convincing.

2009-02-07T02:23:00.000-05:00

I think the anti-block is the most convincing.

I advocate the view that spacetime is shaped like ...

2009-02-05T07:48:00.000-05:00

I advocate the view that spacetime is shaped like the Menger sponge.

I endorse random block, but only when it takes the...

2009-02-03T21:43:00.000-05:00

I endorse random block, but only when it takes the depicted form, namely, containing a series of love-heart-shaped cross sections.

Sorry, here's the URL:http://boundaryinstitute.org...

2009-02-03T17:00:00.000-05:00

Sorry, here's the URL:

http://boundaryinstitute.org/articles/Dynamical_Markov_files/v3_document.htm

Try dynamic rather than kinematic Markov processes...

2009-02-03T16:59:00.000-05:00

Try dynamic rather than kinematic Markov processes.

It's been suggested (thanks JDN) that we add some ...

2009-02-03T16:24:00.000-05:00

It's been suggested (thanks JDN) that we add some possibilities, by taking each of the cases above, and restricting attention to the causal past/future of an observer (or set of observers). This kind of thing was first suggested by Stein (1991).

So instead of a growing block, we would have a growing cone, etc.

Isn't presentism a limiting case of the growing an...

2009-02-02T21:32:00.000-05:00

Isn't presentism a limiting case of the growing and shrinking block model? (in which the block that exists is reduced to a surface really). Well, this is so, if presentism is okay with saying that future will come into existence.

That's terrific.

2009-02-02T18:33:00.000-05:00

That's terrific.