Re: What exactly makes us the \"present\"
>Happenstance. All observers throughout space and time are on equal footing. Every observer's subjective present is "the" present.<
I agree and disagree. I disagree because me right now, from my perspective, am living in the present and at this moment there is a continuitous flow of events that led directly to me here now. If our "spot in time" is not arbitrary because I cannot go back in this universe and change the past, that would directly affect me here in the present (the Butterfly effect). But at the same time, if you dropped me in any point if time, that point would become the present for me, so I agree in that respect.
>When a hypothetical observer travels through space at the speed of light, one of the dimensions he previously perceived as space is transposed with the dimension he perceived as time. Space-time is malleable, distortable, twistable, and overall very strange.<
Wonderfully put.
>What this model seems to imply is something like predestination. If all moments in time exist "simultaneously", with the past not fading away and the future not as unwritten as we think, then free will becomes an illusion of the observers who are being duped by our gullible senses.<
I agree, but I call it choice. That and the fact that certain things are out of our control, that's the "shared reality" part of the present.
>there must exist a fifth dimension which is perpendicular to all four of the dimensions of spacetime. Across this dimension would be arrayed all possible iterations, or organizations, of matter and energy within space-time. This at first seems to imply ridiculous complexity, with entire space-times existing next door to one another that differ by the valence level of one electron, or the color of someone's eyes.<
I gotta go back to Titor. As I like to say, all possibilities exist, but only the one that we percieve as the "tangable present" (which is defined as "the point in time when we can infer causality that will directly affect the future") is really reality, the rest are possibilities i.e. things that have no energy; tangability; causality. Titor said something like "I entered this universe and by entering it, quantified it". Another example of this is my computer. Opening "My Documents" I get a long list of my folders. If I add new folders to My Documents, they're not quantified unless I open the my documents folder, that is- if I add new folders then open my documents, only at that time will they load the thumbnails. Hope I conveyed that well enough.
>All the information for all possible states of the universe exist, latent, within the 5D system. What you see, as an observer in space-time, bears no meaning on what "is", objectively, but upon what the emergent sensory limiting system of your mind can <i>evoke</i> from the system based upon certain complex factors within itself. Yes, it implies something like the idea of manifesting particular circumstances through hope, prayer, or mere expectation, and yes it is as unverifiable as these similar ideas. At this point it completely departs from the realm of science (as it exists now) and crosses over into hypothetical meta-science.<
I think we're in reality when we have the choice of whether or not to say, break a vase knowing it will remain broken from then on.
I wrote a visual interpretation of the 5D model you suggest a few postings ago:
>In our "labratory of the mind" we have two of those magnetic ball-thingees that makes a spark jump from one to the other spaced apart and held upright, facing each other, one has a positive charge, the other has a negative charge, the spark jumps the gap. But instead of a gap, connecting both balls is a large handful of long, spaghetti-like metal wires and holding them together as a bunch is a metal O-Ring. We turn the machine on and the metal O-ring immediately jumps to one end of the rope as it's attracted to one ball and repulsed from the other. We slowly change the polarity of the balls and we see the O-ring pushing its way from left to right and it ends up on the right side, working its way through the spaghetti strands, squeezing them as it passes along them.<
Each string is an alternate universe over the entire spance of time. The O-ring is "the present", the O-ring is the point where all the strings are squeezed to one point. Regardless of whatever course each strand took to get there or goes after that point, at some point it will be squeezed inside that O-ring. The interior circumfrerence of the O-ring squeezes many strings together at once presenting many "alternate presents", moving back we see even more choice in the past as well as ahead to the future. If we wanted to jump into another universe, we "side step".
