Yes Belindi. Haha, love your distaste for the metaphor!Belindi wrote: ↑September 13th, 2022, 7:10 pm ' The block universe' is unpleasantly claustrophobic like a solid cube of wood or even stone, and is not a nice metaphor.
However if there be ontic order, but not ontic chaos, then hard determinism is real. For us who live in space-time we must live within measurements of space and time in order to stay alive. Measurements are ways and means of defining and explaining change and relativity.
The EPR experiment shows space does not exist. Space is relative to the position of the observer. It's subjective. It's not much of a stretch to view time as subjective.
For instance we experience some events such as mostly static crystallised in a map, a photo, a familiar face, or a painting. Other events we experience as mostly sequential or performative such as theatre, music, dance, or transits from place to place. But the distinction is blurred between crystallised form and sequential form. We can choose to look at the separate components of the former and we can choose to look at the balance and completeness of the latter.
I think you get part of the problem with experiencing Time in that it has Subjective elements or qualities to the experience of it. I still love the video I often use regarding the two paradox's of time, in that the present seems to be just an arbitrary division between the past and future. We need all of time to make sense of time, and to simply survive, but how much of the present time we need remains the question...
Thoughts?