In answer to the question, "How long will you be dead after you die?", the logical answer is "forever". So my question is, "How long were you not alive before you born?"
If the answer is also "forever", then obviously you would have never been born. In my mind, this points out the fallacy of linear time: that time has a beginning and an end. On the other hand, I only remotely grasped the basics of high school physics and never went to college, so I could be missing something very obvious.
Yet somehow I see a gap between what we humans understand as knowledge, and what knowledge itself is. One way to pose that question is, "What is the relationship between reality and the human interpretation of reality?" Is there any difference at all?
So, if and when string theory explains everything, will it be able to explain why human consciousness knows it explains everything?
2006-07-07
18:35:38
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