tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post7731697270856201658..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: CompresenceRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-6700894671415702122018-04-13T05:39:33.399-04:002018-04-13T05:39:33.399-04:00Good point!
Jumping off this good point, if the ...Good point! <br /><br />Jumping off this good point, if the B-theory of time is correct, then ancient cities co-exist with modern ones. Tenochtitlan co-exists with Mexico City and bombed-out WWII cities co-exist with their modern counterparts. Likewise ancient flora and fauna with modern flora and fauna. Likewise pre-modern landscapes with modern ones (e.g. forested areas with deforested areas). And so on and so forth. In short, all sorts of physical entities (e.g. people, places, animals, plants) could be present but indetectable to us. <br /><br />So I suppose there's what's unobservable by unaided human senses but observable by instruments or other aids (e.g. subatomic particles). It's possible we could detect more entities or phenomena that we can't currently detect if we had better instruments or advanced technology. Yet, of course, just because we can't presently detect certain entities or phenomena doesn't necessarily mean they don't exist or don't exist until we can detect them. These could include indetectable physical entities or phenomena which have been there all along.<br /><br />Related, one could formulate a plausible and reasonable theory about the existence of indetectable entities based on detectable effects. That's what scientists have done in molecular and cellular biology (e.g. RNA, DNA, proteins, cancers) as well as particle physics (e.g. atomic and subatomic particles). <br /><br />Of course, an indetectable non-physical entity or phenomena could be: the existence of other minds (e.g. the problems of p-zombies) or mathematical numbers and laws. These could exist outside the spacetime continuum too.<br /><br />And even on the air waves, there are multiple signals simultaneously sent out, but typically we only tune into one of the signals. The other signals are indetectable to us, not because they don't exist, but because we haven't tuned into the other signals, but because we have chosen to focus on a singular signal at the exclusion of the others. Similarly with the electromagnetic spectrum. Our naked eye can detect visible (white) light in the range of 400–700 nm, but not other wavelengths. Not because other wavelengths don't exist, but because our senses aren't able to pick them up.Epistle of Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07779184015407034200noreply@blogger.com