Will, Hopefully: When you say “the configuration space” you have the human. The human is part of the configuration space. It’s not multiplying entities to have a human and his hand or a hand and the hand’s figures. A different configuration space, one that differed only in that it contained a different human rather than this human, would cause a different future.
Tim: The wheel of science doesn’t roll backwards. We know why we thought we had absolute time at a level of abstraction that encompasses those situations in which we had apparent evidence for absolute time. What would it even mean, at this point, to say that we had discovered absolute time. What would the experiments have to look like? Do you think that we might find out that there is “real heat”, not just thermal motion, too?
Will, Hopefully: When you say “the configuration space” you have the human. The human is part of the configuration space. It’s not multiplying entities to have a human and his hand or a hand and the hand’s figures. A different configuration space, one that differed only in that it contained a different human rather than this human, would cause a different future.
Tim: The wheel of science doesn’t roll backwards. We know why we thought we had absolute time at a level of abstraction that encompasses those situations in which we had apparent evidence for absolute time. What would it even mean, at this point, to say that we had discovered absolute time. What would the experiments have to look like? Do you think that we might find out that there is “real heat”, not just thermal motion, too?