time, as it is colored in the given universe is irreducibly
abrasive; timelessness is
frictionless. Any medium to house consciousness in such a phase space, is invalid. Death is real, and even the best lives cannot escape the abrasion of the temporal dimension of this particular phase space (which could be one of an arbitrary number, given well-accepted multiverse theories). All human activity is ultimately a drive to deny that death is not the
de facto destination or final goal of a human being. Most importantly: we live in a specious present, and die in a specious present. The past is always lifeless and inactive, therefore the final moment takes a priority above all other moments. If one claims not to live in a primary present, they are deceiving themselves or otherwise hallucinating. Philip Mainlander was as of the early 21st century, the only human thinker to propose suicide as in fact the highest morality, given the abrasiveness of this particular phase space.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Mainländer
Time's inherent abrasiveness:
We don't
navigate time
(0:26 - 0:45) :
Both physics
and neuroscience are concluding that free will is an illusion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egocentric_presentism:
Death Mode A : painful (default)
Death Mode B : painless, peaceful, pleasant (optional)
There are only two choices in human existence: (1) get off the train voluntarily, at a personally-preferable reference frame (2) stay on the train until it crashes (death via the erosion of biological aging)
"Forrest (2004) argues that although there exists a past, it is
lifeless and inactive. Consciousness, as well as the flow of time, is not active within the past and can only occur at the boundary of the block universe in which the present exists."
"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper." --Albert Einstein
"Awareness and acknowledgment of the
arbitrariness of
Dasein is characterized as a state of "thrown-ness" in the present with all its attendant frustrations, sufferings, and demands
that one does not choose, such as social conventions or ties of kinship and duty. The very fact of one's own existence is a manifestation of thrown-ness."
"The objective world simply is, it does not happen. Only to the gaze of my consciousness, crawling upward along the life line of my body, does a section of this world come to life as a fleeting image in space which continuously changes in time." --Hermann Weyl
"We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and
the future just like the past would be
present before its eyes." --Pierre Simon Laplace,
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
