raw_thought wrote:Libet's experiment was not about "time wakes" or any physics. His experiment "only" showed that we make decisions before we are aware of them.
In other words our brains make decisions and then our minds make up a story about how we consciously decided to do something.
Essentially yes. However you haven't understood the point I was making with respect to the nature of time. Consciousness is a process and awareness is an observation of a process. As a statement of the bloody obvious we can't observe something until after it has already occurred which means we can't be aware of making a choice until after we've already made it. There's nothing particularly odd or mysterious about that but the "wake of time" comment referred to the speed at which the present moment becomes its own next moment which is in fact the speed of light. When one single electron in your entire embodied mind jumps into a different orbit you are no longer physically the same person which means you are becoming a new you at the speed of light. You are yourself becoming.
You are made of matter and energy no different from any other physical entity in the universe so what is true for you must be true for everything, including the universe itself. Just as you are yourself becoming so is the universe itself becoming and this represents a profoundly different way of thinking the world than that offered by spacetime physics. This is in fact the ToE and it makes every single paradox and counter-intuitive absurdity thrown up by 100 years of physics simply vanish. This is a universe which a child could understand.
'it should be possible to explain the universe to a barmaid".....Albert Einstein
'The Universe will ultimately reveal itself to be an entity of the most sublime austerity"....John Archibald Wheeler
It's simple Boolean austerity would bring a tear to your eye, Jack.