Quick note on Julian Barbour's book: I went to a talk he gave prior to the
launch of the book, and asked him about the philosophical and perceptual
implications. Really, he approaches from the mathematical point of view, and
doesn't necessarily propose a metaphysic. I'm under the impression that what
he said is that it is mathematically unsupportable to propose such a thing
as time AS an absolute; there is no actual 'proof' of a sort of continous,
unending 'stream'. as such, if time is thought to be more a sort of
'description' than an absolute, then of course 'space' follows it, then
matter / energy.
Which leaves information. Or quality. Or whatever.
cheers
ppl
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