This is interesting of itself, because none of this follows. All that is required for existence is that it is. It requires no interaction, because as you seem to imply, there’s nothing for it to interact with. All you would seem to be saying is that existence affects existence, which is nothing short of a tautology of existence affects itself, which would be causa sui! And your idea of movement in time is extremely questionable. For movement requires going from A to B, but B can’t be occupied for A to move to it. And this would mean that there’s something else which isn’t existence, and existence would have to interact with non-existence. And, if we accept current ideas of time within Einstein’s theory, there is no movement, which is just a “persistent illusion”. There’s no change, because it’s all static, and where something is static there is no movement. There’s nothing to move to.
The problem with you bringing up “now” is that there’s no “now”, which is just an illusion. There would only be “before” and “after”. But they never interact with one another, because they’re both logically distinct, one is A and the other is ~A. There’s no interaction between them. So you bringing up there being a distinction between “then” and “now” actually indicates that there’s no “interaction”, which destroys your position to begin with movement in time. That’s because A can’t move to ~A. A can only occupy A, and A can never occupy ~A. But if it did occupy ~A then it would be ~A to begin with.
Second, there’s no change in the world line. Would you say that this line is changes: ______________ ? Where’s the change in that line? None, because it’s static. You can think of bread. You have the loaf of bread, which never changes from being a loaf of bread. But this loaf can be sliced up into slices of bread. One slice is logically distinct from another and can’t be that other.
Third, you say that you have to deal with perception, which is a good start. But this doesn’t give you interaction. Show me the interaction between one billiard ball and another billiard ball? I’m sure you can see this is David Hume’s argument on causality, which pretty much undermines your whole idea of interaction. But hey, you say you see “ongoing manifestation of past”, but show me the past. Can you do that with perception? Nope, you can’t. Heck, you can’t even show the future with perception. So you haven’t really supported your position with much. You can’t point to the past, and you can’t point to the future. You can’t have a perception of the future and you can’t have a perception of the past. So you see no “ongoing manifestation of the past”.
And this statement of “likelihood based upon perception” is totally unfounded by perception. Perception shows no likelihood, and perception definitely doesn’t show the “past” or the “future”. And perception shows plenty of time “uncaused” things. That’s what is so great about “uncaused” things. They allow you to create “caused” things. Like David Hume once said, “The efficacy of causes lie in the determination of the mind!” And this was a guy that was completely loyal to perception.
This is all nice, but you haven’t shown that interactivity is existence, besides you just, as you basically admitting, that’s how you define it. But how you define it is just a convention based on the definition that you choose. But your definitions are not only contradicted by experience, they lead to contradictions of their own. In other words, your definitions lead to the logically impossible, and what you argue against you say is logically impossible. Thus, you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Right, according to what I quoted I would have contradicted myself if I held to that. But I never said that I held to it. I just pointed out Einstein’s theory says that nothing changes.
Interesting, because it seems like you’re implying that there is a spatially infinite universe, but there is no evidence for this at all, at least not found in experience. So you would seem to have to at one point want to affirm perception for your position, but then at another moment want to affirm something that’s beyond perception (i.e. spacially infinite universe). Now you definitely seem to be stuck in a contradiction.
Excellent, because you can’t say that non-interaction is absurd without implying that interaction is just as absurd. But you haven’t really even shown that interaction is actually existent.
Right, but as was previously pointed out above in this very post, you haven’t even perceived any interaction and you can’t even do that. So you’re very own position is by definition undetectable. You can’t detect the past to even say it exists, and this would carry with it that you can’t even detect or experience interaction, which means that you can’t hold to cause either. The problem is that you basically admitted that “non-interaction” phenomena aren’t possibly observable. But if the contradiction isn’t possibly observably, then it’s contradiction isn’t possibly observable, which is interaction. In fact, your very point seems to bare a loose resemblance to testability. Testability requires that A and ~A are possible to observe, but if ~A isn’t possible to observe, then we can’t even say that we’ve observed A. We can’t tell the difference between A and ~A by perception.
Oh I can easily describe the beginning of the universe. You have nothing but blackness, and all of a sudden an object shows up. In fact, this is perfectly imaginable, which shows it’s possible for there to be no causation or interaction at all. But hey, you’re the one that is saying that the universe is infinite, and so far you haven’t presented any evidence besides the hand waving of saying “a finite universe is absurd”. That’s not really evidence, because you’re position is just as absurd.