1P-causality

The exchange between SPK and Bruno is hard to personalize, there is am unmarked paragraph after a par marked ... so I was in doubt whether it is Bruno, or Stephen who wrote: *His use of the word causation is unfortunate but we can forgive him because there is no correct word for the

Re: The Nature of Time

Hi Stephen, My point is that time as a pointer that points to what exists and what not (anymore or yet), cannot exist. You can indeed map the set of all such pointers to the real line. I agree that relativity is inconsistent with such an idea of time. Saibal Hi Saibal Are you defining

Re: 1P-causality

On 4/6/2011 2:06 PM, John Mikes wrote: The exchange between SPK and Bruno is hard to personalize, there is am unmarked paragraph after a par marked ... so I was in doubt whether it is Bruno, or Stephen who wrote: /His use of the word causation is unfortunate but we can forgive him because

Re: 1P-causality

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:59 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: In fundamental physics where evolution is time-symmetric, the distinction between cause and effect is just an arbitrary choice.  In more practical terms cause usually refers to some part of a process we could chose to