>One would then need to argue for the
> superiority of the eternalism model.
> What explanatory advantages does it
> offer? Saying that a changing external
> world is an "illusion" presumes one has
> adopted, or at least is leaning toward, a
> static model rather than a dynamic one.
> Given that experience changes --- and
> there can be no doubt about that --- then
> it would seem that a static model would
> have a difficult time accounting for those
> manifest phenomenal changes. And
> accounting for phenomena is the
> motivation for constructing models in
> the first place.