Being a computer-head – and with a strong lean towards discrete > analog (despite my ongoing attempts to always try to keep analog in mind) I can comprehend very easily a notion of a state system, and even the notion of a system which is fixed, its motion only an illusion (Einstein’s movie frames metaphor – his use of Camera within was brilliant)
I may not see it as appropriate for the entire universe, however, if someone was to believe in a simulated universe of some kind, it would not be unreasonable for them to consider the universe as having been precompiled and running and we’re part of a program consisting of distinct moments (a state system) with unique identities assigned to each moment but without persistent objects in its operating system; or that is to say, in that system it might be unreasonable to consider a similar object at different moments the same object because its index fixed and crucial to its identity and not something that can be decoupled.
That’s the best I can do at the moment to try to justify it partially.
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Very hard for me because it has the smell of Plato’s forms and I’ve never done well with Plato’s forms.
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