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What Makes Time Special? (Hardcover)
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What Makes Time Special? (Hardcover)
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As we navigate through life we instinctively model time as having a
flowing present that divides a fixed past from open future. This
model develops in childhood and is deeply saturated within our
language, thought and behavior, affecting our conceptions of the
universe, freedom and the self. Yet as central as it is to our
lives, physics seems to have no room for this flowing present. What
Makes Time Special? demonstrates this claim in detail and then
turns to two novel positive tasks. First, by looking at the world
"sideways" - in the spatial directions - it shows that physics is
not "spatializing time" as is commonly alleged. Even relativity
theory makes significant distinctions between the spacelike and
timelike directions, often with surprising consequences. Second, if
the flowing present is an illusion, it is a deep one worthy of
explanation. The author develops a picture whereby the temporal
flow arises as an interaction effect between an observer and the
physics of the world. Using insights from philosophy, cognitive
science, biology, psychology and physics, the theory claims that
the flowing present model of time is the natural reaction to the
perceptual and evolutionary challenges thrown at us. Modeling time
as flowing makes sense even if it misrepresents it.
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