I find the block universe esthetically displeasing. But is there a coherent counterargument I could make?
Suppose we have a population of Frogs. Some of the Frogs have stronger and longer legs and are able to jump further. Now we observe at a later time that that the ratio of Long-legged Frogs to the Short-legged Frogs has (significantly) increased. Naturally we would turn to an natural selection story: the ability to jump further increases the chance of survival for a Frog and meant that they the longer-legged Frogs have outcompeted the short-legged Frogs. However, there is of course also a possibility that this happened purely by chance → Drift hypothesis.
The block-universe seems at odds ABORT
I think this was already observed by Judea Pearl: Causal identification is tightly wrapt up with ‘Flowing Time’.
[This argument is not complete]
Block Universe vs Evolution
I find the block universe esthetically displeasing. But is there a coherent counterargument I could make?
Suppose we have a population of Frogs. Some of the Frogs have stronger and longer legs and are able to jump further. Now we observe at a later time that that the ratio of Long-legged Frogs to the Short-legged Frogs has (significantly) increased. Naturally we would turn to an natural selection story: the ability to jump further increases the chance of survival for a Frog and meant that they the longer-legged Frogs have outcompeted the short-legged Frogs. However, there is of course also a possibility that this happened purely by chance → Drift hypothesis.
The block-universe seems at odds ABORT
I think this was already observed by Judea Pearl: Causal identification is tightly wrapt up with ‘Flowing Time’.