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30 - David Albert: Foundations of Physics, Time’s Arrow, & Moral Expressivism

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The Decision to Address Asymmetries of Epistemic Access

The right place to address questions about asymmetries of epistemic access is someplace logically prior to physics. There's a strong temptation to say why can't I remember the future, because the future hasn't happened yet. And then you would need a metaphysics that comes from the word go with a distinction between past and future built into it. Whereas the physics doesn't seem to have that. So anyway, there are several directions in which you could go. The philosophical question very much parallels what we were saying about the measurement problem before.

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