Monday, March 19, 2012

Time Travel and Free Will

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TIME TRAVEL: Travel through time-in-itself does not occur for the simple reason that, apart from whatever constitutes The Holism, there is no thing-in-itself.   That is, TIME is not a non-relative thing that can be traveled through; it can only be related to (or a mere byproduct or aspect of relations and sequences thereof).  However, Relative Time travel is routinely experienced from every perspective of consciousness that apprehends transition across the eternal present. At the human scale, one may fashion a rocket trip such that one would depart and not return to Earth until all one’s relatives had long since expired. At the micro scale, physicists hypothesize that virtual particles continuously flux across the past, present, and, perhaps, future. However, such conceptions of fluxes average out, so that no information is allowed to upset an appearance of preserved sequentiality.  Sequentiality is shared among all perspectives that are in communication within a shared cone of experience. This is consistent with what Hawking calls a "chronology protection mechanism."
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I am not so confident to say that relative time travel into the past is not possible. Rather, I would say that, except possibly by The Holism itself, such time retrieval can never be proved, because any change in the past that effected any relative change in the future would erase any possibility of communicating any awareness of any preceding condition that was different from what is preserved in the accumulated record of the present. Thus, if anyone or anything time traveled back and forth between the past and the present, we would never know to prove it. Otherwise, there would be a violation of Hawking’s chronology protection mechanism. Nor would we be able to say how the present had been rendered different from what it otherwise would have been had there been no hypothetical travel to the past and back.
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Every particular, relative thing averages out within a wider context to conserve a present zero. Things bubble and flux because some eternal and infinite aspect of the cosmos enjoys a trivalent capacity to divide in (and by) zero — even though flatlander mortals, with their limitation to bivalent logic, do not. To rephrase Shakespeare, there are more spirits in the physics of nothingness and zero than abide in our poor imaginations. In truth, we can appreciate and be receptive to the music and noise of the cosmos, we cannot comprehend its non-trivial logic. Nor am I confident that “you” could ever prove that some aspect of “you” has not always existed. This is because I suspect no essence of any particular thing or conscious identity can abide — except in respect of  “the eternal present.”
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FREE WILL:  A similar line may be followed for reasoning about free will.  Free will among particular perspectives is not a thing that abides in itself, but only in relation to perspective, context, and purpose.  It abides only in relative apprehension and appreciation.  Individual mortals don't move and energize matter or substance by "pushing it about with free will."  Spirits don't push pennies up walls.  Rather, how we apprehend and appreciate the music and noise around us and how we determine to observe and measure the relations among such music and noise constitutes our feedback, which DOES affect how the fluxing of The Holism is synchronized --- on a metaphysical level.  This idea may commonly be referred to as coordinate with "the measurement effect."  In that respect, free will is not something that can be quantified or scientifically proved or disproved.  Only by arbitrarily pretending that free will is something that should be defined as being measureable can it be said that free will does not present itself (because it cannot be quantified or measured).  However, that is not to say that free will, in respect of how we come to apprehend our surroundings, has no qualitative effect on that which The Holism synchronizes to collapse and present to our interpretations, appreciations, and communications.  Until this is better understood, people like Sam Harris will simply continue to shill shell games for pretending to prove that it is unreasonable to intuit or believe other than that the qualitative pea does not exist, simply by conflating and restricting free will under labels for quantitatives.  It's not that we have measurable freedom to choose, independent of the cosmos.  It's that we have no choice but to effect choices (apprehensions and appreciations).  And such apprehensions and choices DO interfunction to affect outcomes.  Once the powers of the Establishment buy into the notion of quantitativsts (atheists regarding non-qualitativeness), we will then encounter confusion and despair ... in all its enormity.  Once the State monopolizes to establish the party line that free will does not exist, then notions of merit and of respect for thought processes of individuals will be twisted into all manner of Orwellian pretzels.  Often, human life will be rendered valueless, so that confusion and anarchy will run amuck.
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I don't know why this is so hard to get into the skulls of know-it-all scientists and secular elitists.  Really, the presumptiveness for pure quantitativists to pretend they can prove (or that they have proven!) that qualitativists are unsupported by reason ... gets to be a rather tiresome, juvenile game.  Simply put, it's a mirror image, coming from an opposite direction, of the abuse of science that is done by creationists.
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META INFLUENCE OF BELIEF AND WILL:  Belief in a metaphysically qualitative aspect of conscious free will that, while immeasurable, connects us in feedback with God and with one another, tends to be reasonable, soul inspiring, and self uplifting. Belief that consciousness is nothing more than an accidental passenger that accompanies unfolding events while having no influence on them tends to be irrational, soul stifling, and self annihilating. Belief that children of civilization should be led to become adults for facilitating broad respect for human freedom of expression and enterprise tends to produce society that is ennobling and fulfilling. Belief that there is no such property as free will, apart from illusion, and that alternative ideas should entirely replace it, is base and demoralizing. One belief facilitates meaningfully assimilative seeking of existential music; the other greases the way to noise, disintegration, confusion, despair, anarchy, and social nihilism.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The puppet president, brought to you by crony profilers for getting out the racist base. Soros is maximus-Crassus, while Obama is his buddy, minimus-Caeser (sans the military experience). The hope and change are the pipe dreams sold to recruits to con them into marching for spoils. When the vote is given to everyone, there are always more easily addled and bribed idiots than there are patriots for the republic. It's all of a piece. Now we have Sam Harris laying groundwork for getting us to accept that freedom and merit are nothing. Evidently, populist redistribution, whether forced or puffed, is all. No middle class, no equality. Just a hierarchy of nobles, plebes, and slaves, with ever more controlling gears greasing gears on wheels. Cicero is checkmated, while Soros-Obama-NWO approach the Rubicon and the Republic pours itself out from the city.