Time Really Passes, Science Can't Deny That
History and Philosophy of Physics
2018-07-23 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
Today's science provides quite a lean picture of time as a mere geometric evolution parameter. I argue that time is much richer. In particular, I argue that besides the geometric time, there is creative time, when objective chance events happen. The existence of the latter follows straight from the existence of free-will. Following the french philosopher Lequyer, I argue that free-will is a prerequisite for the possibility to have rational argumentations, hence can't be denied. Consequently, science can't deny the existence of creative time and thus that time really passes.
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@article{arxiv.1602.01497,
title = {Time Really Passes, Science Can't Deny That},
author = {Nicolas Gisin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.01497},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Talk presented at the Conference "Time in Physics" at the ETH-Zurich, September 2015. 7 pages