ElI5: What Einstein meant by “the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”.
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I see it as an extension of his theory of relativity, time being relative to movement in space. The one you’re mentioning is called the block universe theory, but it’s not Einstein who came up with it. I think Einstein was a pantheist which may have some basis on platonism, idealitic dualism (which is what Christianity was founded on) which is a theory that the true nature of existence is immaterial which super-ordinates our physical unviverse. I kinda have this belief myself, but I don’t necessarily believe in an intelligent design behind it. However, pantheism does subsume agnosticism (in a lot of people). There’s a theory that I heard from David Chalmer’s ted talk, that experience might be fundamental in nature like time and space, relative to those as well in similar fashion. In a way, it is you know… Another cool ted talk about consciousness is Antonio D’Amasio’s. I’m taking a class on it, the neuroscience of consciousness, and he seems to have a spotlight in it.
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