Re: Russell's book

From: Russell Standish <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:20:16 +1000

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 07:40:06AM -0000, David Nyman wrote:
>
> Why do we need to assume TIME as an ordering process for 'successive'
> moments under the RSSA assumption? Isn't it the case that, under the
> ASSA assumption, 1st-person experience would continue to appear
> 'time-like' (because of its 'relative' internal structure within each
> 'time capsule') without the need for a TIME postulate (i.e. Barbour's
> position)?
>
> David
>

If you can demonstrate this as a theorem, or even as a moderately
convincing argument why this should be so, I'd be most grateful for a
presentation. I'm all for eliminating unnecessary hypotheses.

I haven't read Barbour's work, but from everything I've read about it,
his approach simply skirts the issue without facing it head on.

Cheers

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Received on Wed Sep 13 2006 - 05:54:29 PDT