Russell writes > I find it amazing > that you claim I deny the existence of time. Au contraire, it is > something I explicitly assume. My reading of Bruno's work is that time > is implicitly assumed as part of computationalism (I know Bruno > sometimes does not quite agree, but there you have it).
Sorry. Now, I mean by "Time Deniers" those who (for example Julian Barbour) believe that time doesn't really exist, but can be reduced to configuration spaces or bit strings, or perhaps other things. The essential ingredient---I'm guessing here---is that time is *not* an independent quantity, not really an independent parameter. > The true "time deniers" on this list are those favouring the ASSA - > Jacques Mallah, Saibal Mitra, etc. I never worked out your position Lee? The Absolute Self-Sampling Assumption---I have not followed all the threads here, and don't know for sure all that this entails. As for my position, I admit that it now seems to me that I'm a kind of dualist compared to those I call the time deniers: because I still cling to the idea that time has an independent existence (or, equivalently, cannot be reduced to other quantities). As I wrote earlier with regard to one species of "time-denier": > > I am still at the point where I cannot quite imagine how a > > huge nest of bit strings (say all the real numbers between > > 0 and 1) manages to (in stasis) emulate all possible > > conscious experiences of all possible entities. But I > > still have an open mind. Now this neologism is only a temporary expedient until I find out the categories established by people who've thought about this for years; I don't intend for it to gain any usage. Lee