The questions surrounding our common ideas of time fascinate and frustrate me… so much is missing that a lot of what’s present can’t be reasonably trusted…
… for example there are no discussions of the distinction between intervals and biorelational, or cognitive time… the question has branches we don’t yet have categories for…
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In quantum mechanics, information can be shuffled or scrambled, but never created or destroyed. Yet if the digits of numbers defining the state of the universe grow over time as Gisin proposes, then new information is coming into being. Gisin said he “absolutely” rejects the notion that information is preserved in nature, largely because “there is clearly new information that is created during a measurement process.” He added, “I’m saying that we need another way of looking at these entire ideas.”
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