Capurso, Alessandro (2022) The potential of a thick present through undefined causality and non-locality. Entropy, 24 (3). p. 410. ISSN 1099-4300

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This paper elaborates on the interpretation of time and entanglement, offering insights into the possible ontological nature of information in the emergence of spacetime, towards a quantum description of gravity. We first investigate different perspectives on time and identify in the idea of a “thick present” the only element of reality needed to describe evolution, differences, and relations. The thick present is connected to a spacetime information “sampling rate”, and it is intended as a time symmetric potential bounded between a causal past of irreversible events and a still open future. From this potential, spacetime emerges in each instant as a space-like foliation (in a description based on imaginary paths). In the second part, we analyze undefined causal orders to understand how their potential could persist along the thick present instants. Thanks to a C-NOT logic and the concept of an imaginary time, we derive a description of entanglement as the potential of a logically consistent open choice among imaginary paths. We then conceptually map the imaginary paths identified in the entanglement of the undefined orders to Closed Time-like Curves (CTC) in the thick present. Considering a universe described through infor-mation, CTC are interpreted as “memory loops”, elementary structures encoding the information potential related to the entanglement in both time and space, manifested as undefined causality and non-locality in the emerging foliation. We conclude by suggesting a possible extension of the introduced concepts in a holographic perspective

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Item Type:	Published Article or Volume
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Capurso, Alessandro ale.capurso@gmail.com 0000-0003-3277-3588
Keywords:	time; presentism; causality; free will; entanglement; CTC; information; quantum gravity;
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity
Depositing User:	Mr. Alessandro Capurso
Date Deposited:	20 Mar 2022 03:29
Last Modified:	20 Mar 2022 03:29
Item ID:	20349
Journal or Publication Title:	Entropy
Publisher:	MDPI
Official URL:	https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/3/410
DOI or Unique Handle:	10.3390/e24030410
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity
Date:	15 March 2022
Page Range:	p. 410
Volume:	24
Number:	3
ISSN:	1099-4300
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20349

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