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The Past-Future Asymmetry
Asymmetry block universe decoherence entropy order/disorder phase space spreading theory of relativity thermodynamics thermodynamic probability time travel
2016/6/15
As the past-future asymmetry – that fact that we have records of the past but not the future – is still a puzzle the aim of this paper is twofold: a) to explain the asymmetry and its status in philoso...
Nietzsche has a problem with the past. He thinks we all have a problem with it, indeed several interlocking problems, whose chief root he tries to identify. His repeated attention to this topic, comin...
A Shared Pre-Christian Past?
Shared Pre-Christian Past
2009/11/27
This article will employ examinations of baptism ritual in Finland and Greenland to argue that it may be fruitful to orient discussions of Finnish religiosity, and possibly even culture more broadly, ...
Neither Inevitable nor Continuous with the Past: Writing about Jim Crow New Orleans and Religion
Religion Jim Crow
2009/6/9
When I began graduate school I was looking forward to a career studying religion in colonial America. Puritans, I must confess, were my passion. That I am now a historian of the late nineteenth centur...
Can We Get Inside the Aesthetic Sensibility of the Archaic Past?
archaic past cave paintings George Bataille imagination
2008/11/7
This essay is about getting inside the sensibility of the archaic past.[1] Can we get into the creative mind of the painter of The Sorcerer? Can we reconstruct the sensibility of prehistoric humans? ...
《The Analysis of Mind 》Lecture IV. Influence of Past History on Present Occurrences in Living Organisms
分析哲学 Analytic Philosophy Bertrand Russell 罗素
2008/7/28
In this lecture we shall be concerned with a very general characteristic which broadly, though not absolutely, distinguishes the behaviour of living organisms from that of dead matter. The characteris...
Measures, Explanations and the Past: Should 'Special' Initial Conditions be Explained?
second law of thermodynamics initial conditions
2008/4/15
For the generalizations of thermodynamics to obtain, it appears that a very “special” initial condition of the universe is required. Is this initial condition itself in need of explanation? I argue th...
Does a Low-Entropy Constraint Prevent Us from Influencing the Past?
Causation Time Thermodynamics
2008/4/11
David Albert (2000) and Barry Loewer (2007) have argued that the temporal asymmetry of our concept of causal influence or control is grounded in the statistical mechanical assumption of a low-entropy ...
An abstract treatment of Bell inequalities is proposed, in which the parameters characterizing Bell’s observable can be times rather than directions. The violation of a Bell inequality might then be t...