Re: 'Multiverse Theory' - Universe is a Virtual Reality Matrix

From: Torbj?rn Larsson (070-3993938_at_comhem.se)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: 1 Aug 2004 20:19:35 -0700

dralexgreen@yahoo.co.uk (Alex Green) wrote in message news:<42c8441.0407290403.366de0c1@posting.google.com>...
> 070-3993938@comhem.se (Torbj?rn Larsson) wrote in message news:<70b38f8b.0407281928.77782f55@posting.google.com>...
> > dralexgreen@yahoo.co.uk (Alex Green) wrote in message news:<42c8441.0407280149.6138c7fc@posting.google.com>...
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> > > > "Alex Green" <dralexgreen@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > > > > "Jaxtraw" <jaxtraw@nospamnobigfoot.com> wrote in message

> > Returning to Alex own site, it is revealed that his manifold has two
> > time dimensions, physical and mental time. So causality is not
> > preserved anywhere. Go figure!
>
> The theory expressed on the site is empirical, based on an analysis of
> observation.

An empirical method is a method where the theory in case is tested
against empirical evidence (and refuted if making false predictions).
This evidence should be outside the set of observations that the
theory is based on. How was your theory tested?
>
> http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~lka/conz.htm
>
> Causality is an interesting problem ("the arrow of time"), not
> confined to consciousness studies. However, I would draw your

In this case I mentioned that your theory contained two time
dimensions and thus cannot preserve causality. Therefore your
perceptual field model is acausal which is not a property the model
should have.

> attention to the section in "4. A Theory of Consciousness" in the
> paragraph headed: "A Description of the Extended Present":
>
> "The future has not yet been selected so there are no defined events
> leading into the future. This provides an experience of moving forward
> into the future at any instant."
>
> The empirical theory suggests that the space-time manifold of
> conscious experience selects a particular 'present'.

I don't understand this. The perceptual field rearranges according to
new perceptions with time. We can occassionally simulate what just
happened or predict what will happen or other beings feelings or
actions; this is what the consciousness is developed for, presumably!

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