Re: The arrow of time is the easiest computational direction for life in the manifold

Ronald, Thanks for the reference. Of course Lobo implicitly assume physicalism, so we cannot really built from that. I guess you know that Gödel is the first one showing that there exist solutions of Einstein's GR equations with closed time loop. Circling computations exist (trivially) in th

Re: The arrow of time is the easiest computational direction for life in the manifold

Bruno Have you seen this: V. Walsh, "A theory of magnitude:common cortical metrics of time, spce and quantity", trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 483 (2003) This was a one reference in a paper on time I just read today( Time and Causation http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0559

Re: The arrow of time is the easiest computational direction for life in the manifold

Brent: I tried to clarify my point of view in my previous response. This is my answer to these questions. On Jan 25, 5:53 am, Brent Meeker wrote: > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > 2009/1/24 Alberto G.Corona : > > >> But the fact is that in our univese, glasses do recompose themselves, > >> the

Re: The arrow of time is the easiest computational direction for life in the manifold

> The question is often asked, why does time seem to progress in the > increasing entropy direction? But if time were in fact progressing in > the decreasing entropy direction, we would know no different. For > example, if we were living in a simulation where 2009 is run first and > 2008 is run s

RE: The arrow of time is the easiest computational direction for life in the manifold

> > Right. It's generally thought that the direction of increasing entropy is > > > defined by the expansion of the universe since the expansion increases > > the > available states for matter. But it's hard to show that this must > > also > determine the radiation arrow of time.On the contra

Re: The arrow of time is the easiest computational direction for life in the manifold

Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 2009/1/24 Alberto G.Corona : > >> But the fact is that in our univese, glasses do recompose themselves, >> the flame of the candles do recombines liberating oxygen and make grow >> the candle, objects lighter than water sink. Why? because these events >> exist in our

Re: The arrow of time is the easiest computational direction for life in the manifold

2009/1/24 Alberto G.Corona : > But the fact is that in our univese, glasses do recompose themselves, > the flame of the candles do recombines liberating oxygen and make grow > the candle, objects lighter than water sink. Why? because these events > exist in our space time; Just go in the reverse