Time is not necessarily an arrow but because similar to short
distances on earth, it appears to be so. Some philosophies view it as
cyclic or Wheel like (Sanskrit: Kaal Chakra) Wheel of Time. (01)
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Len Yabloko <lenyabloko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Paola,
>
> The very first line of this paper is arguably wrong:
>
> "Objectively, time does not pass, physics reveals no such phenomenon"
>
> I can agree that physics still lack a coherent theory of "time arrow". But
>that does mean it "reveals no such phenomenon". There are sevral known attempt
>to account for time in theoretical physics.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time
>
> While writing this answer I had come accross this article
>
> http://www.temple.edu/psychology/overton/documents/ArrowTime_CycleTime.pdf
>
> --- On Thu, 1/21/10, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> From: Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [ontolog-forum] correct Logical types
>> To: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 9:43 AM
>> thanks to a link posted in another forum
>> (thanks DM/TGL)
>>
>> i come across the notion of Logical Types
>> specificaly interested in 'correct logical types
>>
>> I know it may be too far a philosophical push fror some on
>> this list
>>
>>
>> I am rushing around and dont have much time to
>> study/discuss in depth
>>
>> i hope it is of interest, so posting for reference
>>
>>
>http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00005073/01/Transtemporal_Phenomenal_Consciousness.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>> proposes a systems thnking view of logical stances
>>
>> quasi random excerpts
>>
>> Relativity requires that we consider the dimension of time
>> on a par with the spatial dimensions, thus making a block
>> universe inevitable. The concept of change can be recovered
>> by considering a sequence of definitions of the block
>> universe, and thus the passage of time can be considered to
>> be the change of this definition, resulting in a sequence of
>> block universes as transtemporal reality
>>
>> ........
>>
>>
>>
>> 6 Logical Type
>> In order to make the ideas more accessible I have described
>> the process as one of experiencing, but this is the
>> subjective perspective of the underlying phenomenon, the
>> indexical change of the functional frame of reference, the
>> exercise of the collapse dynamics, which is on this view an
>> emergent property of the system as a whole. That the
>> collapse dynamics is meta to the physical is at first a very
>> counterintuitive idea, but this is what is required to give
>> rise to a process of the correct logical type. Given that
>> all of the moments exist in static array, iteration is
>> required in order for there to be any transtemporal
>> phenomena, and a transition through a succession of
>> definitions of the linear dynamics is a process meta to the
>> physical; the linear dynamics is the logical arrangement of
>> interactions of the matter and energy in the spacetime of
>> the universe, and the change to this layout is of a
>> different logical type to the layout itself.
>>
>>
>> ...
>> .........
>> What would be required is something that is to the moments
>> as the projector is to the movie, something that contains
>> all the moments and iterates the sequence. Clearly only the
>> unitary system as a whole contains all the moments of any
>> given sequence. Additionally, the only possible expression
>> of the necessary logical type for an iterator is an emergent
>> property of the system as a whole; only the system as a
>> whole is of the correct logical type to change the
>> functional frame of reference from one block universe to
>> another, giving rise to the appearance of collapse described
>> by Everett. Objectively this transtemporal process is the
>> collapse dynamics, subjectively it is phenomenal
>> consciousness passing through time.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> end exerpts
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paola Di Maio
>> **************************************************
>> “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take
>> you everywhere.”
>> Albert Einstein
>> **************************************************
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