Consul wrote: ↑June 6th, 2019, 6:40 pm
What do you think is the best explanation of those perfect psychophysical correlations?
They do not need an explanation, they are what comes naturally, because consciousness is just the subject's way of being in the material world. This is the difference in the way we look at these things. I take the subject's point of view, you take the point of view of material processes taken apart from the being of the subject, and this is a Münchhausen's trick, in my opinion.
Of course, you can reply e.g. that there's no identity but only a divinely pre-established harmony between different entities, but how plausible is that (in the light of our scientific knowledge of the world)?!
They are not different entities, there is only one process going on, but its ontological structure is 'subject - conscious of - material objects'. No gods, everything is natural. No need to change anything in the principles or discoveries of science, except in its materialistic prejudices, which sometimes lead to the kinds of absurdities we have discussed here.
Do you believe there is a "metaphysical time" in addition to and different from physical time? If yes, what is metaphysical time?
It is the subject's way of existing. There is nothing supernatural in it. It is the sequence of experiences. Present, past and future are essential for it. It is phenomenologically describable and ontologically original. Its relationship with physical time needs phenomenological analysis, but it cannot start with physical spacetime as a self-evident basis.
The distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.
I am not sure in what context Einstein has said this, but taken literally this is nonsense.
By the way, if time flows, what's its speed? One second per second? Well, that's just the number 1; and a mere number lacking a physical unit is no physical quantity at all.
Subjective time "flows" from moment to moment, that is all. And physical time does not flow at all, except relative to the subject's flow of experiences.
By the way - and this is important - subjective time is not consciousness of time, it is consciousness itself with temporality as its internal structure. We cannot imagine consciousness without time: something happening now, then something else happening, and so on.
Anyway, your (Descartesque) hyperphysical conception of experiences and their subjects, according to which they aren't located anywhere in (physical) spacetime, is both philosophically and scientifically implausible to the degree of sheer nonsensicality.
I'm afraid your hyperphysical metaphysics of subjects and their experiences is a "magical mystery show".
Empirical science gives me the material of thinking, and what I have presented here is the world view I have built from that, taking into account the existential paradoxes we meet in the middle of this "thrownness into the world".
Your perspective to all this is, from my point of view, a bit poor, or then you just have not understood anything of what I have said. I assume it is the latter.