(3:25 PM) Bob: If "me at 3:24" is one of my versions, then I am not just one of these cuts or versions, but something that is identified as permeating all of them. Now, where and in what time is this universal "I" located?
There is no universal 'I'. Instead, there are different versions of oneself at different times. For instance, most children differ significantly from the adults they become. We identify an adult with the child they used to be because, among other things, the adult retains (roughly) the same memories and experiences.
Very helpful! But what’s still a bit unclear to me is the status of all possible future states of the multiverse. Are they all already part of the “script”, all the way into an infinite future ?
Yes, they are. The multiverse as a whole is timeless, meaning the future states of the multiverse don’t have to come into existence -- just as it’s past states don’t vanish from existence.
I think it’s more likely that the future is computed from the past. This is probably demanding enough that we need a dedicated multiverse to do it. As time moves forward and interactions occur, things pick up more correlations with other things. I think this gives us an arrow of time to work with.
That's assuming that the universes is a computer, which it isn't. It also runs counter to general relativity, in which spacetime exists in full in and doesn't evolve. It simply exists. It's inside of a spacetime that systems can evolve.
(3:25 PM) Bob: If "me at 3:24" is one of my versions, then I am not just one of these cuts or versions, but something that is identified as permeating all of them. Now, where and in what time is this universal "I" located?
There is no universal 'I'. Instead, there are different versions of oneself at different times. For instance, most children differ significantly from the adults they become. We identify an adult with the child they used to be because, among other things, the adult retains (roughly) the same memories and experiences.
Very helpful! But what’s still a bit unclear to me is the status of all possible future states of the multiverse. Are they all already part of the “script”, all the way into an infinite future ?
Yes, they are. The multiverse as a whole is timeless, meaning the future states of the multiverse don’t have to come into existence -- just as it’s past states don’t vanish from existence.
I think it’s more likely that the future is computed from the past. This is probably demanding enough that we need a dedicated multiverse to do it. As time moves forward and interactions occur, things pick up more correlations with other things. I think this gives us an arrow of time to work with.
That's assuming that the universes is a computer, which it isn't. It also runs counter to general relativity, in which spacetime exists in full in and doesn't evolve. It simply exists. It's inside of a spacetime that systems can evolve.
But time does not flow. Nor does it move forward. hence my question.