Major premise: Reality is things happening
Minor premise: Time is nature’s way to keep everything from happening at once
Conclusion: Time is the shape of reality
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“at once” is undefined, “thing” is undefined
conclusion: GIGO
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All foundational definitions are irreducible circular. The trick is to make the circles neat.
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in my hoovering up of lenny susskind lectures i find his casual remarks to be the most memorable: one was on the notion of the time dimension and how absurd it would be for there to be more than (or less than!) exactly one of them
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Though arguably people with severed corpus callous experience 2 times maybe?
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Your conclusion is even more elegant/obvious if you admit the Larsonian hypothesis that time has 3 dimensions
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I want an empirical description of mechanism for this to be satisfying.
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