Does time "pass" -- or is it just "there"?Posted By Paul Kammueller |
Stanley Feather wrote:
"BTW, some pretty cool ideas have been presented by physicists over the past few years around consciousness and space-time. But most of that’s not testable, so it sort of borders on PRP."
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It's funny you should bring consciousness into this as it's one of the things I've always wondered about and tried to figure out how to define as I've never found a satisfactory definition elsewhere.
In talking about time, energy and information, it occurs to me that consciousness is really the 'moment' when energy is effectively converted to information, or forces matter into an organized state such as constitutes organized information in the brain.
In other words, through the ages men have tried to define consciousness as a 'thing' whether through some abstract concept like a 'soul' or something as concrete as brain cells -- whereas maybe it's more of an 'event' -- like a phase change of 'something' else.
