From: Darin Sunley (rsunley@escape.ca)
Date: Thu Aug 19 1999 - 22:27:14 MDT
"Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
[snip]
> Any anti-matter that was created by
> our original big bang that was not eliminated at the time of the big
> bang is now some 26 billion years in the past, since anti-matter of any
> kind is simply matter that is going backwards in time.
[snip]
This may seem like a trivial question but I'm not sure that it is. Given a supply
of anti electrons and anti protons and neutrons, you could in principle build up
any anti-element you wanted. Anti-carbon, for example.
You could combine these anti-elements into organic anti-molecules. These could in
principle become arranged into anti-neurons and anti-brains.
Here's the question: Would a conscious brain, identical in design to our own,
experience time in the same direction we do? Also, would the answer to that
question depend on whether or not consciousness is dependent on the quantum
properties of one or more components of the neuron?
Darin Sunley
rsunley@escape.ca
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