Farr, Matt
(2023)
The Three-Times Problem.
[Preprint]
Abstract
In the two feature articles for this volume, Gruber et al. (2022) and Buonomano and Rovelli (2021) focus on what the former call the ‘two-times problem’, in short, the apparent lack of fit between time as described by physical science and our own temporal experience, where ‘experience’ involves things like memory, anticipation, and perception of change and motion. In this short note I’ll make the case that the two-times problem is less serious than it is often made out to be in the specific case of features like ‘passage’ and ‘presentness’ that are central to the ‘A-theory’ of time — the theory that holds time to be composed of dynamic regions of ‘past’, ‘present’ and future’, and for time to genuinely flow or pass.
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