The Arrow of Time
Everything in the world is a large mosaic of local facts - there is a geometry: a system of external relations of spatiotemporal distances between points - at the points we have local qualities, perfectly natural intrinsic properties - everything is an arrangement of qualities (AoQ). Everything supervenes on it. - Important argument: there is no distinction without difference. - That does not mean that two possible worlds could not be different without having a difference in the AoQ. Cf.
Lewis I
David K. Lewis
Die Identität von Körper und Geist Frankfurt 1989
Only in one direction
As a photograph is static and does not show movement, the now does not make things easy for us either and it seems that there is no time in a frozen instant as it happens in photographs. The now could not be a duration, because this now would have a past and a future, thus it would cease to be an instant in time and thus it would not solve the problem.
As a photograph is static and does not show movement, the now does not make things easy for us either and it seems that there is no time in a frozen instant as it happens in photographs. The now could not be a duration, because this now would have a past and a future, thus it would cease to be an instant in time and thus it would not solve the problem.
