From: Madame Ubiquitous (eileen.krasowski@yale.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 18 1999 - 13:48:52 MST
>Yes, John, "now" and the passage of time are illusions. You Experience
them, >us zombies just experience them. It is a strong illusion like the
other strong >illusion that you are separate from the rest of the Universe.
But these are >very useful fantasies in day to day life because they give
you a preferred >point in time and space. Without them, you run straight
into the problem of >breaking the symmetry of being everywhere and everywhen.
If time is an illusion, then you can pretty much give up studying physics,
chemistry, biology...just about everything that relies on motion or
reactions, because if time is an illusion, they are as well by extention.
And since illusions are of no importance to us, those of you in these
illusionary sciences are in the wrong line of work, epistemologically speaking.
Eileen
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