@Dywyddyr (re #102 being word salad):
See, posts like #102 just encourage me to proceed full speed ahead.
Really? Why? Since we know that the BBS singularity did stop being "eternal" when it exploded.
Yes I realize that’s your position…so requiring the BBS to coexist in two states would impose a paradox. And for this reason, you say reject the idea. OK I see that. But I don’t see how the eternal ceases to be eternal, without creating the same paradox. I think that’s what you are tacitly positing (because you’re too wiley to give me a verbose answer!)
This idea is not in variance with regard to the paradox. It does obviously require that the universe be in two states at once: the eternal one, and the temporal disintegrating one.
I guess one other possibility is that there is no eternal precursor. There is just a bloom @t=0+ and, before that, at precisely t=0 there is absolutely nothing.
I am pursuing this, not to flog a dead horse, but because you seem to have another idea of eternity – perhaps a semi-eternity - or maybe I am wrong to try use the term “eternity” at all.
I enjoy reading your posts and nearly fell over laughing at your post #42. Talk about timing.
To OP . . . after all these philosophical arguments . . . . timelessness STILL exists . . . and is continually converting to "time' . . . . and there are reasonable alternatives to the BBS model that do the accounting.
I myself am trying to avoid the purely philosophical by moving to a speculative pseudoscience. I am also trying to avoid the complexities behind presuming BBS, or even BB without S. It is kind of a silly OP anyway, as cast, but the underlying meaning behind it is one of the big unsolved questions.
Say more about your statement, beginning with “timelessness”. What do you mean? (I am following you to EEMU as I post this)