Quote from: typtap on December 29, 2012, 11:49 pmDistance and duration both have a Planck constant (1.616199(97)10^35 meters, 10^43 seconds) beneath which space and time cease to mean anything, at least as we understand them. Our particles move through space in Planck units, and we fall through time in Planck units. That's a really high fps, so to speak, making it appear continuous. I wouldn't guess that we're teleporting across those distances and durations, more shifting through the most highly probable possibilities from one point to another.It's the time and space in between where I believe free will gets a chance to assert itself. Maybe more. I'll be pondering on that over to the New Year, will write more on it in the meantime.Oh my. I fear I must correct you, dear friend: the spans of "distance" between moments in time must necessarily appear "continuous" regardless of their minimum "length". We exist within time, not outside of it. Now I know you and everybody else who seems to feel these wonderful things on acid like to talk about the unchanging nature of... well, existence or something. Whereas I just spend the whole time crying in a corner terrified (yes, that's what tripping is like for me; it's bad... and I probably took way too much, as usual).And I grant you, that it's possible consciousness can arise from some other foundation than our brains. And it's possible this thing you feel when you trip is real, not chemical delusion. And it's possible that when you die, you'll still exist in some shape or form. But I'm afraid it's not possible for the gaps between moments in time to have any influence whatsoever on our experience of them. They could be enormous, or minute, and we'd never know the difference. We exist only as a series of moments. How could we ever be aware of the length of time between them? By definition, we exist in the stream of these moments. You can't just step outside of this stream and look down on it -- not with the full faculties that our brains provide us, that is. Perhaps, in some way... some how. Yes. Again, I can't prove you wrong. But certainly not the way we understand existence and time as human beings. It just can't be possible. Our neurons fire in successive moments of time. Big or small, it makes no difference in the end really. Most of what I call "me" is just those neurons firing as they do successively. Now, later, tomorrow, next year -- doesn't matter how long away, if my neurons fire the same way in successive moments, it seems to be a necessity that I'll experience the same "continuous flow" of time. Even if I'm losing years inbetween and never noticing it.