“conscious states somehow reflect physical states in the brain. Put in its crudest form, a brain scientist who knew the state of our brain would know our conscious state at that instant.” — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, consciousness and understanding are always tied to a short time span, which was called the specious present by the philosopher and psychologist William James (brother of novelist Henry). The specious present is closely related to the phenomenon of short-term… — Julian Barbour Copy Share
“conscious states somehow reflect physical states in the brain. Put in its crudest form, a brain scientist who knew the state of our brain… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
What really intrigues me is that the totality of all possible Nows of any definite kind has a very special structure. You can think… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, consciousness and understanding are always tied to a short time span, which was called the specious present by the philosopher and psychologist William James (brother of novelist Henry). The specious present is closely related to the phenomenon of short-term memory and our ability to grasp and understand sentences, lines of poems and snatches of melody. It has a duration… — Julian Barbour Copy Share
“The chain from cause to effects may be quite long and take surprising forms, but a cause there must be. It is unsatisfactory to suppose that we have a direct awareness of an invisible flow of time. Our sense of the passage of time and, even more basically, of seeing motion and knowing its direction, ought to have a cause… — Julian Barbour Copy Share
“By a time capsule, I mean any fixed pattern that creates or encodes the appearance of motion, change or history.” — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
“You are the music of the spheres heard from the particular vantage point that is you.” — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
“The higher we climb, the more comprehensive the view. Each new vantage point yields a better understanding of the interconnection of things. What is… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us,… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
“somehow seems appropriate here: ‘If the end of the world is nigh, it is time to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes to Cincinnati twenty… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting. — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
