Rubber Balloon Analogy

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Some analogies are better than others. Every analogy has the problem that parts of the analogy are supposed to tell you something about the thing being analogized, and parts are supposed to be ignored. The block universe does not imply eternal life in any sense at all. Different moments of time are real at different moments of time. They're just equally real. Immortality means you live through all the moments of time, and in the block universe, you don't. So i think wen toapologize, walter. I know this is a priority question, but i don't get it. Eric dovigi: Why do objects bend space time? Nina: There's two kind

Welcome to the July 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic.

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