From: Colin Hales (colin@versalog.com.au)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 23:19:14 MDT
I can see that I'm going to have to work on this a little more.......
thanks for the pointers.......
Colin
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> > Doesn't causality _create_ time?
>
> Well, not always.
> There is the Reichenbach's
> common cause principle.
> And there is the Wheeler's
> delayed choice experiment.
>
and Rafal..............
### I warmly recommend Barbour's book. He makes a much better job of
explaining his ideas than I could hope to provide. Still, let me try a
little bit: the notion of causality applies to the internal structure of the
timeless elements of a configuration space describing all possible states of
the Universe. These elements contain "traces" of other elements -
substructures mathematically related to other elements, allowing grouping
these elements in a nonarbitrary way along a vector/axis, which we call
time. Conscious experience it then an attribute of some structures within a
subset of such elements, with the experience of the first human being
existing in the same way as our own.
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