Relativity removes a global present, and the block-universe representation then becomes the natural public geometry. But the price is clear. Passage, actuality, and the privileged immediacy of the present are not recovered inside the representation; they are treated as perspectival residues. That suggests, then, what if the error is not in the relativistic invariants, but in the ontology we attach to them? Lorentz covariance, light cones, proper time, and clock comparison can be retained without assuming that the temporal coordinate is a dimension of the world. The coordinate may be indispensable as a label while still being non-ontic as a dimension. This is the distinction I think the debate now needs: invariant structure, yes; temporal dimensionality, no. Otherwise, we remain inside what I call the Minkowski trap. The conflation of mathematical bookkeeping with dimensional ontology. https://t.co/Vm2nZkRUaD
@rand_longevity This is a huge advance in your understanding. You wanted to be linked forever within the illusion; now, you want to break it down. Well, once you recognize who you are, you can figure out how!!! https://t.co/qGNhDytlcR
The ego is the defensive and narrative interface of personhood; it organizes continuity, status, injury, pride, and recognition, but it is not identical with the human invariant that allows changing cognitive, affective, linguistic, and social layers to remain owned by one experiential source. https://t.co/JQrtDQst3I