Re: Are First Person prime?

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:04:22 +0200

Le 10-août-06, à 22:59, 1Z a écrit :

>> So we should understand that you would criticize any notion, sometimes
>> brought by physicists, of "block-universe".
>
>
> Yes, I certainly would! It is unable to explain the subjective
> passage of time. Dismissing the subjective sensation of the passge of
> time
> as "merely subjective" or "illusional" is a surreptitious
> appeal to dualism and therefore un-physicalistic!


OK. Thanks for being clear. I will not comment because David and others
have already answer this clearly (I think).
David Nyman, like David Deutsch and about half the physicists (let us
say) agrees with this indexical notion of time.
Let us just remember we agree that we disagree on this.
My only conception of time which I am able to take as primitive is
given by the litany of natural numbers (and here perhaps David, George
and other "First person central" can disagree, but that's another
thread).

Bruno


http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/


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