he issue I have – and this topic is fascinating stuff which I’ve always enjoyed – time..
…is that *if* you are measuring the Universe from an “outside” perspective, *of course* now must either be irrelevant or an everpresent “now”.
Yet : how are we measuring change? Time.
Is the Universe ultimately fixed but in such a way that we’ll never know?
Possibly. But, to pragmatics – we _are_ in fact creatures that experience time. We experience existence. We don’t remember birth or death but we remember a lot of stuff inbetween there.
Is there no elasticity? There is. What is elasticity? Memory.
What makes an algorithm differ from an equation?
Time.
Are algorithms an illusion?
The issue I have with these, as much as I’d love to believe in a block universe view, whether time is ever present or non-existent is… well, there are many.
One of which is : if time is irrelevant, so too ultimately is space. Measurement. Change. All of these things we use to determine a this from a that of some kind don’t matter because in the beginning and end of things, all are one?
Pragmatics: What good is that for humans?
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