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Do you think Einstein's philosophy of block universe eternalism is plausible? Why? Why not?

Anonymous Sat 23 Oct 10:11:32 2021 No.13781591 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13781626 >>13781882

>"Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." — Albert Einstein, Letter to Vero and Bice Besso, March 21, 1955

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Anonymous Sat 23 Oct 2021 10:29:50 No.13781626 Report

Quoted By: >>13781652

>>13781591
If the future is fixed but it's inaccessible/unobservable to us, what use is that? Why even care? It's like asking a character in a book what they think of the font they were written in. What are they going to do with this information?

What do you do with the knowledge that the matter composing your body is at this moment exploded/scattered in the cold void at t+ 100 trillion years?

Scientific modeling extends from what we can observe/measure. It gets silly when axiomatically extrapolated into the unobservable metaphysical. You can use these theoretical postulates as a basis for real investigation, but they have no worth on their own.

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Anonymous Sat 23 Oct 2021 10:39:11 No.13781652 Report

Quoted By: >>13781670

>>13781626
I’ll take this as a long winded “no” you don’t think it’s true, nor give a shit.

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Anonymous Sat 23 Oct 2021 10:46:45 No.13781670 Report

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>>13781652
Not quite I think its true but also its not terribly interesting unless you wanna talk about tenet

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Anonymous Sat 23 Oct 2021 13:01:41 No.13781882 Report

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>>13781591
It's a retarded take on Laplace's present as the effect of its past, cause of its future.

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