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Comment author: bramflakes 01 November 2014 09:07:37PM 1 point [-]

B-theorists incline to say that you are a temporally extended object, and that your present awareness is just one time-slice of this 4D object. That is, they allow that you contain, within your 4D extension, several self-aware parts that are not aware of one another. Two such self-aware parts are you-today and you-tomorrow.

I'm an A-ist and that's what I think. I don't see how it's incompatible with A-ism.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 01 November 2014 09:32:33PM 1 point [-]

I probably should have used the terminology of "presentism" and "eternalism" instead of "A-theory" and "B-theory". Do you consider yourself to be a presentist?

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