Re: Belief Statements

Hi Stephen: At 11:08 AM 1/30/2005, you wrote: Dear Hal, How do your kernels fundamentally differ from Julian Barbor's time capsules? I defined information as the potential to establish a boundary. A kernel is the potential to establish a particular boundary. When I said time in a previous

Re: Belief Statements

Hi Stephen: I took a look at Julian Barbour's time capsules and his Nows may be like my kernels but in my (2) the sequence of kernels is inconsistent with its past due to the = dynamic as I have indicated. A sequence of kernels may for a number of steps look like one could derive something

Re: Belief Statements

Hal Ruhl wrote: Hi Stephen: I took a look at Julian Barbour's time capsules and his Nows may be like my kernels but in my (2) the sequence of kernels is inconsistent with its past due to the = dynamic as I have indicated. Barbour's idea is that there is no sequence to the time capsules at all,

Re: Belief Statements

Dear Jesse, Your description of Barbour's Time Capsules sounds about right. My problem with his idea, and may others like it, is that they seem to require some kind of ab initio preconstruction of the capsules, kernels, etc. and also some pre-existing harmony that connects them together.