[MD] Mystics and Brains

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Platt]
> Can change occur in the past? Or the future?

Yes & yes.  Many changes have occurred in the past, some for the better.  If there are no changes in the future, your clothes will begin to smell.

[Platt]
> What occurred yesterday is only in present memory today. 

No.  Long ago tetonic plates crashed into each other. Today no one remembers that, but we do have the Rocky Mountains.

[Craig] 
> The present will soon be past.

[Platt]
> To be instantly replaced by a new present, ad infinitum. Actually, it isn't 
> replaced. It stays while everything else goes. 

You were right the first time. 
 Craig