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Originally Posted by Face
Linear:
Things happened, they cannot be changed.
Each possibility is simply a possibility, not dimension spawning.
More things will happen.
The entire universe will never reach exactly the same state again.
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That is not the definition of linear at all, even if it is your "personal" definition. Linear means a straight line, if you want the literal definition.
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Originally Posted by Face
I see the "does the present exist" question as somewhat removed from what we're talking about. Of course there's a delay before it reaches our senses, let alone before we perceive it. So we're always experiencing the past.
I suppose you could say (is this what you're saying?) all events are rigidly laid out on some level and that we are just experiencing a changing cross section of what IS there. But surely that goes against your standpoint on free will. And then I would say the cross section advances linearly across this...timescape anyway. And in effect it's no different really, it addresses more the predictability of events.
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I wasn't meaning to go off on whether or not the present exists, I just wanted to point out how time is definitely not as we see it.
Read my posts about how I view the nature of free will again and you will see how everything being laid out as I said in my last post is perfectly in line with it.