Abstract
The paper aims to highlight similarities between computational routines of mentally traveling the present time, on the one hand, and routines of mentally traveling other times, on the other hand. The first and second sections, in which I lay out an eternalist view of the world and the massive modularity account of the architecture of the human mind, are intended to set the stage. Subsequently, I clarify the idea that we mentally travel the present. This explanation resorts to a cognitive mechanism I have proposed elsewhere. Finally, I submit that a similar computational routine takes place when we travel other times, be they earlier or later than the present moment. Keywords: eternalism, modularity, episodic memory, four-dimensionalism.
Highlights
All times are equally realTime is a dimension of reality, along with the dimensions of space. after Einstein’s theory of relativity, space and time no longer have independent significance
RESUMO Este artigo almeja destacar semelhanças entre as rotinas computacionais de viajar mentalmente no tempo presente e as rotinas de viajar mentalmente em outros tempos
Proponho que uma rotina computacional semelhante ocorre quando viajamos outros tempos, sejam eles anteriores ou posteriores ao presente
Summary
Time is a dimension of reality, along with the dimensions of space. after Einstein’s theory of relativity, space and time no longer have independent significance. Scholars committed to this view can be sorted into two broad groups: Eternalists, who hold that a l worldpoints are equa ly real no matter how far they are, spatia ly and tempora ly, from any point you pick as reference, and Growing Block theorists, who consider the past as real as the present. For the former, what we ca l “past” and “future” is as real as what we regard “present”. If you flip the book with the right eed, you wi l notice moving images, the motion is not out there
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