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#664 – Alex O’ Connor deconstructs Ben Shapiro and Ed Feser (REBUTTED)

The Counsel of Trent

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The Conscious Mind Interprets the Changes as Different Events

There is no reason to trust any conclusions we reach, since we didn't reason our way through them. Even if the B theory of time is true, it doesn't detract from the truth that some potential in our consciousness is actualized by observing the universe. And this actualization needs an explanation, and the argument from motion shows this explanation can't be an infinite series of actualizers. It has to terminate in that which is purely actual. I don't see anything implausible with saying that even if change in the physical structure of the block universe is an illusion, which I don't accept.

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