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It's sort of funny that where the title alludes to the arrow of time, opening with a quote asserting "all measurements are in principle reversible", it pretty q
by ttctciyf 2y ago
It's sort of funny that where the title alludes to the arrow of time, opening with a quote asserting "all measurements are in principle reversible", it pretty quickly gets to a different arrow of time - that of comprehension:
> "If you haven't read the previous post ... this won't make any sense"
Could you have demonstrated, perhaps accidentally, an alternative organising principle allowing temporal ordering to emerge in a computationally oriented ontology? Can the future only "make sense" if it temporally follows the past?
Only half kidding!
- lisper 2y agoThat's actually a great question, and one I've been wrestling with for years. Why do we perceive time as a sort of continuous monotonic flow? And I think it can be explained in terms of perception and comprehension, which I have a gut feel can be formalized as a kind of preferred basis selection. But rendering that intuition into words (and math) has turned out to be quite challenging, which I why I haven't written about it yet. Maybe in the future :-)