Comment by eru
1 day ago
> Wouldnt you need the T_zero configuration of the universe for this to work?
Why? We learn about the past by looking at the present all the time. We also learn about the future by looking at the present.
> Also we are assuming there is no non-deterministic processed happening at all.
Depends on the kind of non-determinism. If there's randomness, you 'just' deal with probability distributions instead. Since you have measurement error anyway, you need to do that anyway.
There are other forms of non-determinism, of course.
> We learn about the past by looking at the present all the time. We also learn about the future by looking at the present.
We infer about the past, based a bit on some material evidence we can subjectively partially get some acquaintance with. Through thick cultural biases. And the actual material suggestions should not come to far from our already integrated internal narrative, without what we will ignore it or actively fight it.
Future is pure fantasm, only bound by our imagination and what we take for unchallengeable fundamentals of what the world allows according to our inner model of it.
At least, that's one possible interpretation of the thoughts when an attention focus on present.