Does the Past Still Exist?

Re:Does the Past Still Exist? by galgot on Sunday July 24, 2022 @08:55AM (#32213015)

My favorite theory about Space and time is the one from Don Hoffman. To summarize, space and time are parts of our interface to interact with other conscious agents , just like our senses of smell, vision, sound. But it is just that, an interface, created by millions years of evolution, and does not shows the true nature of reality, which could be completely incomprehensible to us. Like electricity is incomprehensible to a cat, evolution, which is very power thrifty, provided cats just enough effectives ways to survive and reproduce the way cats do. Same for us.

this is very summarized, his ideas goes much farther, for him the base of true reality could be consciousness :

https://youtu.be/oadgHhdgRkI

and

https://youtu.be/ds-7sMfJDUw

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Re:Does the Past Still Exist? by Trasmatta on Sunday July 24, 2022 @09:08AM (#32213119)

How does he reconcile space and time being just an interface created by evolution, when evolution itself is a process that only happens because of time?

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Re:Does the Past Still Exist? by galgot on Sunday July 24, 2022 @09:17AM (#32213195)

Well, evolution happening because of time is again how we "understand" it because we have no other ways to. He doesn't say he has the answer to the true nature of time and space, he is a searcher. Check the vids, it is much better explained than I can do :)

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