Abstract. It summarizes a minimal mathematical model that is meant to unpack the consistency among three often conflicting ideas: (1) a block universe view of spacetime, (2) the lived experience of temporal flow, and (3) a form of free will conceived of as genuine openness of future alternatives at the...
ok hear me out because this blew my mind a bit So I was thinking about this whole Block Universe thing (yeah, I know, very normal teenage activity lol). You know the argument: “If the future already exists, then how can time feel like it’s moving?” People usually say that...
Epistemic Status Conceptual toy model. I am not proposing a physical theory or claiming this models the actual architecture of spacetime. I am simply demonstrating that the common intuition - - that a "Block Universe" cannot logically accommodate the "feeling of a moving Now"—is a result of confusing ontological structure...
I’ve been thinking about a simple thought experiment. Imagine you could completely suspend consciousness in a human brain. Not sleep or anesthesia, but really suspend it — for the sake of the experiment, consciousness is fully paused: no perception, no memory, nothing being updated at all. Someone starts drawing a...
AI assistance disclosure: The core idea, model, and thought experiment in this post are my own. I used an AI language model (ChatGPT) to help reorganize the argument, improve clarity, and present the ideas in a more formal and concise written form. The AI did not generate the underlying concepts...