Is time real?

"This suggests that our subjective experience of "hoping" for an outcome is merely a symptom of our ignorance of a pre-existing fact. Exploring this path unlocks a radical view of human agency: we are not "makers" of the future, but rather "discoverers" of a script already written in the B-series."

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"if we accept that there are no privileged reference frames, then an event that is in the "non-existent future" for one observer might already be in the "solidly real past" for another."

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"Information Conservation principle"

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"Only the Growing Block Theory (GBT) captures the profound gravity of human agency"

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"This collapses the distinction between hope and memory"

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"This leads to a form of Objective Idealismplato.stanford.edu, where reality is composed of timeless, spiritual substances, and our experience of "passing time" is a misperception of a logical or qualitative gradient."

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"If the A-series fails, then the very grammar of our lives is a logical "vicious regress.""

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"if existence is a growing block, there is an overwhelming statistical probability that you are currently a "past" person, and your sense of "now" is an illusion."

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"Presentism vs. Eternalism"

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"In 1908, the philosopher J.M.E. McTaggart published The Unreality of Timeen.wikipedia.org, arguing that our description of events as "past, present, or future" (the A-series) is inherently contradictory, while the objective ordering of events as "before or after" (the B-series) fails to capture the essence of change. Without change, McTaggart argued, there can be no time."

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""People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.""

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