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: 
: Time has puzzled people for a long time.  We are so used to being within
: spacetime that when we imagine ourselves outside it, watching peoples
: wormlines as if they were carved in a block of glass, we feel the 
: need to imagine a "hypertime" to keep track of the rate at which the 
: "now" slides along these worldlines like a glowing spot.  This is NOT
: the right way to think of it.  Instead, ponder that block of glass
: and the worldlines of all the people in it, the worldlines of the 
: photons going from the Sun to their eyes (let's leave QM out for now!!),
: the worldlines of the electrons moving in their brains, etc., until
: you see how "from within" that spacetime could seem just like our world.  
: 
: It's only when you spend hours doing this that you really understand
: the concept of spacetime at a gut level.  At least that was the case
: for me.

The usually CAUTIOUS JB has OPENED a can of WORMS here. Is he professing
a belief in strict DETERMINISM? Is he claiming that our apparent
perception of the passage of time is naught but a delusion? .