Philosophy Now Forum

The eternalism of Minkowksi's 4D manifold is what lies at the heart of the still unresolved "observer problem" in physics because it implies the notion of the transcendent observer. In a presentist reality the transcendent observer is replaced by an immanent observer who then becomes interwoven into his observation by constructing a facsimile of it in his consciousness. In my view the word "illusion" is too emotionally laden a term to describe this facsimile constructed by the observer when a more precise word is available in the modern parlance. In a presentist reality the observer observes a HOLOGRAM and it is this hologram that Einsteinian physics is modelling.