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Originally Posted by hardkraft
This thought experiment was not meant to illustrate the workings of time but how an arbitrary law can foster memories only when read in one particular direction and that's why we have memories in only one particular direction. And yes, you are correct, things don't fly to the left and there is no there there to settle on ... At least the last I checked ...  |
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Originally Posted by Popular
No block universes here please, those slices are slices of a length that's merely in your head.
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I watched a PBS special last night which centered on the search for life in space and I heard something quite surprising. Not being adept at chemistry perhaps it's common knowledge, but taking the above two quoted statements together it seems germane.
To whit, all proteins that originate from living things are left-handed. Given that right-handed proteins do exist, maybe our thinking about time and physical properties is biased in a limiting way by our inherent protein structure. So positing, we can no better understand it than putting our right hand into a left glove.
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semantics is not always just pedantic quibbling. ~ douglas r. hofstadter
