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Saturday, February 21, 2015

New Yorker Cartoon: Unexpected Welcome To Heaven


Alan: If there is "life after death," what makes us think this "life" will have no "process" of its own.

At the family dinner table my Dad once announced -- after asking all five kids to supply their own definitions: "Time is that within which change takes place." (The same can be said of "space" and for the same reason.) 

Not surprisingly, death as an end to our "time" on earth "makes" us presume that "time" has ended  altogether.

I suspect that homo sapiens' widespread presumption of post-mortem "no-process simplicity" arises from the human urge to flee the exhaustion (and general nettlesomeness) of complexity-conundrum.

Enjoy the mint.

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"Now he has departed a little ahead of me from this quaint world. This means nothing. For us faithful physicists, the separation between past, present, and future has only the meaning of an illusion, though a persistent one." Albert Einstein quoted in Einstein and Religion by Max Jammer (2002), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

Alan: Einstein's observation first came to me as: "Time is an illusion, albeit a persistent one."



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