Does magic exist? Or do we?
Starting from here…
http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=189463&p=2581853#p2581853
This bring said, we are left with Voltaire’s question regarding what time actually is. Fuck if I know.
I’d go with;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
The Wheeler–DeWitt equation that combines general relativity and quantum mechanics – by leaving out time altogether – was introduced in the 1960s and it was taken up again in 1983, when the theorists Don Page and William Wootters made a solution based on the quantum phenomenon of entanglement. Page and Wootters argued that entanglement can be used to measure time.
i.e. that time isn’t something in and of itself. However it is interesting that when particles behave in a given way, then that effect [here time] does exist! We could say that ‘to behave’ or ‘to act’ is the thing that manifest the property, and in-fact that at base particles are themselves ‘behaviours’ and we cannot observe that out of time.
Ergo; time = behaviour & state also = behaviour. I don’t see how physicists can say that time doesn’t exist, without also stating that quantum particles do not exist? [same also applies to qualities, colour, sound etc].
If we do say that ‘behaviours’ are the definition of an existence, then time is a factor in all existences.
So time, qualia [colour, sound etc] and physics […and consciousness] are essentially the same thing; behaviours, and when something acts in a given way, that IS that thing being real?
The thing that makes you conscious is a product of causality, and when the same conditions arise, that consciousness will exist. Make a physically exact copy and that wont be the same thing because we would have changed the behaviours even if only those of time.
Why? Why does something acting in a given manner become that thing, isn’t that like magic? Or otherwise is there some place in the infinite reality that stores e.g. music and other qualities including your consciousness? And stores time and energy. then with a jedi trick manifests those qualities as and when the given behaviour denotes they should make an appearance?
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