(October 11, 2018 at 8:47 am)polymath257 Wrote:
(October 11, 2018 at 8:40 am)SteveII Wrote: That's wrong. Causality does not require time--time requires causality (events).
Sorry, but I am correct in this. Causality only happens in the future light cone. It is the action of physical laws from some initial condition giving rise to some later condition. So causality requires *at least* time and the action of physical laws.
Even in your theory of time, time is just coordinates that reflect an exact arrangement of matter in the universe. Your would never assign two time coordinates to the same exact arrangement of matter in the universe. So, who is driving the bus? A relative coordinate or physical change?
I know you think metaphysics is "bunk", but time is not only a scientific concept.
Let's imagine an immaterial being existing in a state of complete changelessness with absolutely nothing else in existence (a possible world if you will). Tell me, is there a passage of time?
Let's imagine the same being then has a thought about something. And subsequently has another thought. How much time has passed between the only two changes?
