A silly little post caught my eye and while fighting off the incessant advertisements that came with the little nonsensical philosophical deepness of some facebooker, I did get some short little synopsis (probably horribly oversimplified) of some interesting takes on reality. I thought I might be able to use some. So, here are some facebook theories of the universe to explore in Time Travel stories and specifically A Cornish Mess.
Idealism - Reality is merely a construction of the perceptions held within the mind. A divine mind is able to hold all of the construction of all the perceptions and create an entire universe in the mind.
Presentism - The only true existence is that of the current moment. The past exists only in the mind as a construction of memories. The future only exists of fallible predictions based on the past.
Great Glaciation - The universe will simply become a cold wasteland after all energy has ceased to exist. Matter will become motionless and frozen.
Solipsism - The only thing that can be known to exist is you. All other things outside of one's own mind can be doubted to be real.
Phenomenalism - Existence of things is illusionary. Only the effects of those things are real.
Multiverse - Modal logic and parallel universes. Pretty self-explanatory on numerous levels.
Fictional Realism - If you think of something in this universe it becomes real in another universe. Demands the acceptance of multiverse as reality.
Eternalism - Time exists all at once. Everything is happening concurrently, creation, your birth, your death. But how you observe the universe is basically your vantage point. We can only see from one vantage point at time. But causality is therefore illusionary.
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