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To: Solon who wrote (8232)	3/13/2001 10:18:07 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I think of time as a series of movie frames. The normal progression of time is the physical flipping of the frames past the projector lens and shutter assembly. If I mentally equate the projected image with those things that are real and physical, there is no reason to say the movie exists only when projected. The analogy breaks down because, unlike the serial delivery of frames, each like a bead on a string, I think that the frames are part of an infinite set of (generally) ordered images that converge on the projection point and then (generally) diverge in their turn. This locus of "now" is largely an illusion, IMO, that we perceive as a change of states. This fits well with my understanding that a distribution of all states exists in the multidimensional space in which we inhabit. If I consider consciousness as the awareness of the states and a sense of their nominal relative positions, then consciousness exists as a relationship amongst states rather than the passing of states. But that is JMO. I guess I'll have to wait and see!! But not too soon, please.