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Complex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & James Gleick

COMPLEXITY

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We Know the Past and Not the Future

There's a huge number of metaphors. What is the hidden seed underneath from which all of these sprouts to elaborate part of what we know from general relativity? I would try to dig deeper there. There are reasons to believe that physics actually provides the answer. But I would say that a symmetry is the cause of all the rest of it. And the metaphors, the art, the beauty arises from our not being able to internalize all of that. This is an early morning challenge.

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