If I understand correctly the psychological arrow of time tries to explain why we perceive time as passing by. It answers that in truth time does not pass—we exist at a single point in the timeline, but have the illusion of time passing by because we remember the past and not the future
The arrow of time and the (at least apparent) passingness of time, are two different things. The natural numbers have an arrow, since they are well ordered, but that doesn’t mean they have passingness.
We exist at a single point in the timeline,
So none of us is so much as nanosecond old?
Its often stated that physics is timeless...in some sense. But the senses could include lack of passingness, or lack of an arrow, or lack of a fundamental arrow, and so on.
Secondly isn’t memory itself a process that takes place over time? So how can the illusion occur if time isn’t passing in which it can occur?
If you are saying that passingness can’t arise from stasis,I’m inclined to agree, although it’s only intuition.
But we can explain how an arrow arises from fundamental symmetry, eg. the entropic explanation.
And the psychological arrow might be an uninteresting special case of the entropic arrow...or not.
The arrow of time and the (at least apparent) passingness of time, are two different things. The natural numbers have an arrow, since they are well ordered, but that doesn’t mean they have passingness.
So none of us is so much as nanosecond old?
Its often stated that physics is timeless...in some sense. But the senses could include lack of passingness, or lack of an arrow, or lack of a fundamental arrow, and so on.
If you are saying that passingness can’t arise from stasis,I’m inclined to agree, although it’s only intuition.
But we can explain how an arrow arises from fundamental symmetry, eg. the entropic explanation.
And the psychological arrow might be an uninteresting special case of the entropic arrow...or not.