Re: objections to QTI

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 15:24:56 +0200

Le 01-juin-05, à 15:00, Saibal Mitra a écrit :

> Hi Norman,
>  
> I entirely agree with Julian Barbour. A fundamental notion of time
> would act as a pointer indicating what is real (things that are
> happening now) and what was real and what will be real. Most of us
> here on the everything list believe that in a certain sense
> 'everything exists', so the notion of a fundamental time would be
> contrary to this idea. I think that that most here on the list would
> consider time as a first person phenomena


Indeed. (SGrz pour those who knows). I would like to know if Norman and
Saibal and others agree that there is nothing special with time. Why
does not Julian Barbour talk about space-time capsule? (Or does he?)
I think space is also a first person phenomena. OK?

Bruno

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Received on Wed Jun 01 2005 - 09:28:50 PDT

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