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Imagine believing that your life is just spread out over some “temporal dimension.” Hahaha. The self at 12 pm never flows to 12:00:01 pm. So the conscious experience of that self at 12pm never begins and never ends. That particular self simply has that one particular experience, and there’s not much else to be said. According to these weirdos, the experience would be “timeless.” Saying that the experience never ends could be misleading because it’s supposed to be “timeless.”

The B theory really isn’t conceivable, because it’s incompatible with conscious experience, but if you do try to imagine these zombies’ fake conscious experience, you get some kind of timeless thing that is obviously not what real experience is. The fact that they can’t understand this just proves their zombiehood.

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[–] DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I don't know the first thing about B theory, but I can tell that you're arguing from incredulity against a straw man.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"I half-learned something, don't quite understand what it actually is, but I want to feel smart by saying that I think other people are dumb".

Don't get me wrong, the B-theory of time doesn't hold up basic scrutiny, but "The self at 12 pm never flows to 12:00:01 pm" has nothing to do with it.

[–] lililiIlil6457@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

YEAh yeah yeah " A-theorists also appeal to the fact that our temporal experience strongly suggests that time is dynamic." https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/time-metaphysics-of/v-2/sections/the-b-theory-and-temporal-experience

"strongly suggests" . how about... the alternative is logically impossible.

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