12 Feb '14 17:55>
Originally posted by JS357We agree it ‘s only a theory, yes. However, in the block universe model, according to the pieces of info available at the site you presented, every moment in time is equally real, so the whole of Space and Time must be laid out in one unchanging spacetime block; it follows that, if the cone indeed envelops all the possible changes and/ or fluctuations of the observer block universe according to the theory, then the block universe is indeed a phenomenon-in-flux that keeps together, at the same frozen spacetime, every element of reality (bit) of its whole history, which includes its evolution. Since this is the case according to the theory, my point still is, as I told you previously when I checked the site you mentioned, that time and the block universe should be essentially one; but in such a case, time would be non-existent at all in the block universe, and therefore it cannot be contained in it as one of its 4-D dimensions.
Fine, except I don't see the block universe in itself as a phenomenon-in-flux, or as an event. in fact I see it as quite the opposite. However, to the extent that free will means the making of decisions by an agent, I tend to agree that free will is preserved. IOW, within the block 4-D universe we know, I believe there occurs the making of decisions, and witho ...[text shortened]... s, needs to come to the fore and be revealed with clarity. Does it mean the making of decisions?
As regards the rest of your post, I conceive as “free will” a specific capacity of rational agents to choose a course of action from among various alternatives according to those agents' Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions. Of course I admit that there are willings that are not free due physical, causal, philosophical, psychological, biological, theological and other constraints, but I believe in free will simply because in my opinion the agent's freedom cannot be seriously undermined and/ or diminished by the tampering I just mentioned. This is the core of my last post at the 3rd page of this thread
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