Being Alone: Death, Solitude and the End of the World

Barbour, Charles

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“…During evolution, the dendrogram's complexity increases and determines the arrow of time in the event universe. We used the complexity measure from particle shape dynamics, which was shown to increase in both directions away from a Janus point and thus determine the arrow of time in symmetrical manner away from a Janus point [15,16,35].…”

Section: Emergence Of Time Arrow From Increase Of Dendrogram Complexitymentioning

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“…However, the increasing number of levels, which is an expectable feature, is not satisfactory enough to serve as a "thermodynamic" law. To capture the scale-free dynamic features of dendrogram dynamics, we use the shape complexity measure, which was introduced by Barbour et al in the framework of Nbody shape dynamics theory (figure 8) [15,16]. and 𝑟 𝑖𝑗 = |𝑟 𝑖 − 𝑟 𝑗 | is unbounded from above.…”

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“…2. The relational and event interpretations of physical theories (Wheeler, Rovelli, Barbour, Smolin [1,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]).…”

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Representation of the universe as dendrogramic hologram empowered with relational interpretation

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Khrennikov

2023

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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This is a brief review on the basics of recently established Dendrogramic Holographic theory (DH-theory). This is the special model of the event-universe based on the clustering transformation of experimental data into dendrogram, a finite tree which branches encoding the events. These event-branches are coupled via the hierarchic interrelation determined by the dendrogram. Such relational universe differs from the universe with space-time mathematically described by the real numbers. Dendrogram is endowed with the common root ultrametric. Finite dendrograms correspond to the epistemic level of description; in the limit we obtain an infinite tree providing the ontic description. In the simplest model, the tree is homogeneous, p-adic tree. It can be endowed with the algebraic structure of the ring of p-adic integers. Hence, DH-theory is a part (but very special) of p-adic theoretical physics. In this paper we discuss the foundations of DH-theory and its applications to quantum-classical interrelation including the novel interpretation of the violations of the CHSH-inequality, to general relativity, and to emergence of quantum mechanics from the event-picture of the universe. Since both quantum theory and general relativity can be emergent from DH-theory, creation of the latter can be viewed as a step towards unification of these two fundamental physical theories.

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Representation of the universe as dendrogramic hologram empowered with relational interpretation

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Khrennikov

2023

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“…A discussion of whether Delboeuf’s mechanism is compatible with the advances of 20th-century physics requires a study all its own, however, and will not be undertaken here. I would only note that the nature of time is the subject of lively debate and speculation among contemporary physicists and philosophers, from those who see it as a relational phenomenon of change, similar to how Delboeuf saw it, to others who believe the whole history of the universe, its past, present, and future, is fused into a single, timeless reality, and our experience of the passing of time—and of free will—is consequently an illusion (Barbour, 1999, 2015; Callender, 2010; Carroll, 2010; Smolin, 2013, 2015). The same applies for inertia.…”

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Joseph Delboeuf on time as the mechanism of free will

LeBlanc

2021

Theory & Psychology

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In the early 1880s, Joseph Delboeuf proposed a little-known but ingenious solution to the problem the law of the conservation of energy poses for free will. When energy is transferred between two bodies, the law of energy conservation requires that the energy before and after the transfer be the same, but it says nothing of the time it must take. If we could delay this transfer, Delboeuf proposed, we could alter the course of matter without compromising the conservation of energy. This article begins by tracing the early history of the conflict between free will and the first law of thermodynamics and by recounting some initial attempts to resolve it. It next describes Delboeuf’s theory and the arguments that were made against it, before situating it with respect to some recent developments in the philosophy and psychology of free will.

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“…For a critical overview of the main strategies carried out to address compatibility issues between the A-theory and relativistic physics, see Eagle 2021.5 Prominent elaborations and defences of presentism, pastism, A-eternalism, and B-eternalism can be found, respectively, inBourne 2006, Tooley 1997, Schlesinger 1980, and Mellor 1998. The C-theory is explained and defended in Farr 2020; the Timeless theory inBarbour 1999. For further references in temporal ontology, see Markosian 2020: § § 5 and 6.…”

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Why is Presentism Intuitive?

Graziani

2023

Metaphysica

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Presentism is, roughly, the ontological view that only the present exists. Among the philosophers engaged in the metaphysics of time there is wide agreement that presentism is intuitive (or commonsensical) and that its intuitiveness counts as evidence in its favour. My contribution has two purposes: first, defending the view that presentism is intuitive from some recent criticisms; second, putting forth a genealogical (or debunking) argument aimed at depriving presentism’s intuitiveness of the evidential value commonly granted to it.

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Being Alone: Death, Solitude and the End of the World

Abstract: This chapter focuses primarily on Derrida’s very late seminars on ‘The Beast and the Sovereign’ and ‘The Death Penalty’. It shows how, for Derrida, the problem of the secret is bound up with that of death, which is an issue that concerned Derrida in all of his work.

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Representation of the universe as dendrogramic hologram empowered with relational interpretation

Representation of the universe as dendrogramic hologram empowered with relational interpretation

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