On 12/20/2018 1:11 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 5:39 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 9:47 AM Brent Meeker <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 12/18/2018 6:34 PM, Jason Resch wrote:That wasn't my question. Do you believe your experience rules out the block universe?If you mean a pre-determined universe, I think that is ruled out by quantum randomness. But I don't think our experience rules out there being a 4-dimensional map of all events. Sure. General relativity gives us the idea of a 4-dimensional Lorentzian manifold, over which one can lay a coordinate chart. But that is not an ontology. But my point is it could be (and that it is a simpler theory if it is).
But the inference often drawn from this picture is hyper-determinism. Hyper-determinism isn't impossible, but it's not implied by the fact that there can be 4-space map for labeling events.
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