Sunday, January 13, 2013
The space-time continuum (and your Conscience)
This is how I imagine reality and our lives within it:
I. The universe has a couple of dimensions (space and time) and probably more. Sometimes I suppose there's a third dimension which is emotion. Space and emotion, at least, could be divided up into sub-dimensions. People usually describe space in 3 sub-dimensions.
II. I imagine there's a universal clock that progresses along regularly for all eternity. (There probably isn't any such absolute time, but I imagine that there is, anyway. Let's keep things fairly simple.)
III. There's a "normal" direction of time, which is the direction toward the future.
IV. In space-time (disregarding the emotion dimension for now, so as to be simple), we progress along. At one instant of time, we occupy one place in space. At another instant of time, we occupy another place in space.
V. Here's a crude analogy: It is like space-time were filled with a waxy substance, and as we progress along through it, we leave marks in it, like gophers burrowing through the dirt. But in space-time, every thing we do, which is every mark we make in the waxy substance, is recorded there exactly for eternity, unchanging.
VI. There is something (such as God) which can look at all of space-time. This entity or these entities can examine everything that ever happened. It may be that (just saying, for example) sometime after we die, our spirits eventually learn how to get into little enclosed boats which can move all over the space-time continuum, and we can look at everything that ever happened.
VII. If you do something, even if nobody is around to see it, _and_ even if you forget all about it, that act and that event are still recorded for all eternity in the space-time continuum. This is how I think of reality. When I do something, I feel guilty or good or however I feel, based on what I did (or failed to do), even if nobody else knows about it. It exists forever in the space-time continuum, although we may lose interest in it.
VIII. There's no deletion. There may be forgiveness, or forgetting, or additional happenings added as time progresses along, but no deletion of what has happened at any time in the past. So what's been done, and whatever has happened, does exist in the space-time continuum.
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