>I won't go so far as to say time is THE answer, but it sure looks to me that it is a far more realistic altrnative than asking questions.

It could be.

To me time is just a result of asking questions.

But as I said to Dragan, perhaps it wasn't simply asking questions, but asking the right questions.

The line of questioning that would lead up to time would inevitably include questions/answers dealing with "change" and "cause and effect" which, with a bit of imagination, is only a hop, skip, and jump away from free will. Perhaps this level of self awareness, keeping in mind whether free will exists or not is irrelevant to the suggestion that we have free will, is the ignition of an explosion?


>By the way, I think the jury is still out as to whether Neanderthals and their cousins were actually wiped off the map. There seems to be growing evidence that they may have merged.

That doesn't make much sense to me, from an evolutionary stand point. Any articles or web pages you can point me to?