'It's very good jam,' said the Queen.
'Well, I don't want any TO-DAY, at any rate.'
'You couldn't have it if you DID want it,' the Queen said. 'The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday--but never jam to-day.'
'It MUST come sometimes to "jam to-day,"' Alice objected.
'No, it can't,' said the Queen. 'It's jam every OTHER day: to-day isn't any OTHER day, you know.'
'I don't understand you,' said Alice. 'It's dreadfully confusing!'
'That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first--'
'Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. 'I never heard of such a thing!'
'--but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.'
'I'm sure MINE only works one way,' Alice remarked. 'I can't remember things before they happen.'
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.
AND:
Time is a series of moments, and a person who exists at a moment exists there forever in four-dimensional spacetime, rather than being transformed continuously through the flow of time.
The argument doesn't strictly require the multiverse hypothesis, because deterministic physics since Newton has implied that the openness of the future is an illusion, and consequently that free will is an illusion.
(This conclusion could be avoided by adopting compatibilism. Also, collapse intepretations of quantum mechanics imply both indeterminism and and an open future).
Hope it helped :)
2007-02-17 03:54:29
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answered by Yahoo! 5
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~~~Red,,,, Synchronicity is a term coined by the protege` of the nutcase Sigmund Freud,,, his name was Carl Jung and developed the field of Jungian Psychology(Google this for info). Synchronicity is a result of Planetary Influences, ie: The Music of The Spheres or Astrology,,,, combined with your Dharma and Karma(Fixed Destiny) and your Freewill(Manifest Destiny),,,, You take it All in your Own Stride,,,,"S**t Happens",,,, but so do "Gifts" ,,, accept them both withThe Wisdom of your Heart,,, and Intellect,,,,~~ An excerpt from Max Ehrmann's "Desiderata", written in 1924,,,,",,,, You are a child of The Universe,,,No less than the trees and the stars, you have a right to be here.,,, And whether or not it is clear to you, The Universe is unfolding as it should." ~ Namaste`
2007-02-17 05:49:59
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answered by Sensei TeAloha 4
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