It gets really weird if you bring relativity of simultaneity into this debate.
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yes, it does, but you can have a classically computed universe (with a privileged now-state) that yields relativistic time and simultaneity to an emergent embedded observer
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If a succession, then each moment must have a beginning and an end, and are therefore divisible by further moments which have a beginning and and end, and so on ad finitum in the direction of the zero point never reached.
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That does not follow, imagine you live eg in a computer game
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As the universe is fundamentally non-deterministic, the future cannot have the same status as the present from a temporal point of reference. But this flowing ref. point may only emerge in cognitive structures in which a blurred image of reality gives entropy its directionality.
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How do you prove that the universe is non deterministic? Especially since it is reversible?
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I reckon the solipsist would claim that there is only now.
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Experientially, there is clearly only now, and it's not the same as the physical present. But is there a physical present that is distinct in some property from all other moments?
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I'm not quite sure why but the idea that space and time are discrete seems a bit disappointing. Disappointing perhaps in a similar way as that there is a maximum speed.
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It’s only disappointing if you don’t want to deconstruct your geometric intuitions
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