Magnus, Jaap, all
Magnus, you well know I'm not on the "idealist" side of considering all patterns being
merely intellectual. I have to admit that your idea of a Quantum Level is elegant and
intersting. We are so used to imagine a possible 5th level, sometimes it's good also
to imagine a level "zero". Leaving
aside the 5th level (something I really consider useless), let me say I go on thinking
that time is an intellectual pattern. Independently of a possible level below (and
below it? -1 ?).
Time is the measure of changing; and changing is DQ at work. This must be valid also
for the eventual Quantum Level, isn't it? And entropy is ONE possible form of
changing. For example, if evolution is an escape from entropy, time should measure
both entropy and the escape from it...
Classically, they invented the very simple idea of a fixed time. Then science has
demonstrated it can't be fixed. And not only at the Quantum Level: the "twins paradox"
is very biologic, I'd say. It's a paradox only if we go on considering time: delete it
and the paradox is dissolved. At every
level, the *speed* of changing is relative. The idea of a unfixed time is IMO the
demonstration that time itself is probably a platypus.
There is only a changing present.
So, Jaap, I offer my answers to your points:
> Time is an orderning inflicted by the inorganic level.
Time is the measure of changing.
> There are no direct problems with time as long as we take enough particles
to use statistics.
I think the twins paradox is a problem with time, even if each twin is composed of
enough particles
.
> There could be a indirect conflict between time/entropy and evolution - but
this is a problem of defining order and chaos.
The real conflict is between entropy and evolution. I think Jonathan has a lot to say
about it.
thanks,
Marco
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