The first three sections of The Pressure of Light establish its core argument: that knowledge accumulates in the human mind sometimes on the the straight and measurable arrow of time, and sometimes in a time-state distorted by uncertainty and projection. Sections 3 to 6 then extrapolate the argument into a series of additional assertions. In this section, section 5 (presented here in the first 12 issues of this newsletter which are working backwards through my essay), I establish my principle-of-infinite-heterogeneity-in-time. This definition of time still relies on the second law of thermodynamics as a basis, but it does so in a way that eliminates the forward-backward problem time-definitions have, where they rely on entropy, and perhaps also the universe's expansion, to explain the constancy in forward movement through time, a constancy seemingly retained because these processes have simply chosen to move only in one direction (for now). When time is defined according to infinite-heterogeneity, however, there is now backward movement to consider.
The Permanence Review Newsletter, Issue #3
The Permanence Review Newsletter, Issue #3
The Permanence Review Newsletter, Issue #3
The first three sections of The Pressure of Light establish its core argument: that knowledge accumulates in the human mind sometimes on the the straight and measurable arrow of time, and sometimes in a time-state distorted by uncertainty and projection. Sections 3 to 6 then extrapolate the argument into a series of additional assertions. In this section, section 5 (presented here in the first 12 issues of this newsletter which are working backwards through my essay), I establish my principle-of-infinite-heterogeneity-in-time. This definition of time still relies on the second law of thermodynamics as a basis, but it does so in a way that eliminates the forward-backward problem time-definitions have, where they rely on entropy, and perhaps also the universe's expansion, to explain the constancy in forward movement through time, a constancy seemingly retained because these processes have simply chosen to move only in one direction (for now). When time is defined according to infinite-heterogeneity, however, there is now backward movement to consider.