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Time can be continuous or discrete according to theory. Is time required for existence? If so what is the proof? There is a sense of time existing...as observed by change. But that which appears to change is actually changeless. The seasons of spring, summer, autumn, winter...as observed appear to ...

Nope :) Now you are saying the universe is dual - something and nothing - but earlier you said it was all nothing (neither of which are uncommon models, it should be said). I'm sorry, do you not understand the principle of opposites? The existence of opposites provides a meaning to a word. The word...

This is interesting. Are you saying you have a sense of it... or that you actually see it? I don't actually see it, but I get the sense that I'm doing it. Do you also have the sense of not being a "me" at all? Perhaps this relates to what you said below. I think the sense of it is same as...

Nothing ever moved. Apparently movement is in the context your blood is moving around your body, true, but it's not going anywhere. Movement happens but it's not going anywhere except here now..nowhere. Think tv screen again...people appear to be walking around in the film, but they are contained t...

There is no such thing as space. You've made this statement several times and it's the only reason why I'm continuing to read your posts. Not only is this an ancient metaphysical first principle which dates back to the pre-Socratics it is also a necessary a priori first principle in order to make Q...

Sweet! I've used this description a lot myself. I describe it as being the wave... rising up and experiencing... then settling back in. Being part of such an immense, limitless ocean... while not being separate at all. The concept of this "me" is just part of the illusion for experiencing...

...we cannot visualise void or nothingness because when you try to think of nothing; you are filling it up in the exact same moment. It is like trying to describe silence by using words. The void is both empty and full at the same time. Yes! We see nothing where we do not have words and reference.....

Now you're getting it. It's not so much that science is looking for an external cause but that's effectively what it amounts to because if taken literally the spacetime paradigm mandates for a universe which had a beginning in time. Nowadays it is widely accepted that this assumption is an extrapol...

Sorry but I thought you said there is no 'space'? There is no such thing as space. Except as idea. Where is space, what is it, and how do you know it is there? space is a concept, a concept is knowledge, and all knowledge is illusory. Wisdom is more important than Knowledge ...wisdom is knowing ......

What is happening when you dodge that rock coming for your head? You know from memory to duck out of the way of a rock coming toward you. If you don't duck out of the way, you'll get hit and it will hurt, so you know from knowledge to duck...knowledge is memory. You see the rock coming and you reac...

You say science will not advance without a model which describes a universe, What I said was that science cannot proceed until such time as a theoretical model is devised which defines a universe which is sufficient to its own existence. The current spacetime paradigm is not such a model because it...

Count me out. To suggest that nothing exists is an inherently self-contradicting statement and one which any philosophy undergraduate should immediately recognise as such. Okay, well who is the self that is self-contradicting itself, are there two selves? if yes, then describe the two selves in thi...

So are we all in agreement that NOTHINGNESS has to be in order for SOMETHING to be ? Count me out. To suggest that nothing exists is an inherently self-contradicting statement and one which any philosophy undergraduate should immediately recognise as such. Okay, well who is the self that is self-co...

Science will not advance without a model which describes a universe sufficient to its own existence. Is there a model of the universe that is not already here known in symbolic form synonymous to itself ? I have no idea what this question means. Would you care to rephrase it? You say science will n...

Obvious Leo wrote:Science will not advance without a model which describes a universe sufficient to its own existence.

Is there a model of the universe that is not already here known in symbolic form synonymous to itself ?