While I don’t disagree with the main conclusion, I have a problem with the following quote:
“The r never repeats itself. The universe is expanding, and in every instant, it gets a little bigger. We don’t need a separate t to keep things straight. When you’re looking at the whole universe, a unique function ψ of (r, t) is pretty much a unique function of r.”
The permanent expansion is just some property our universe happens to have, that one could argue is a function of your abstract time variable. Suppose there existed a physical clock somewhere (similar to our human clocks) that was created during the big bang, you could replace “The universe is expanding” by “The clock keeps changing”—just as a proxy of abstract time. So the above paragraph does not add anything useful to the argument?
not to mention that the original t was a marker used by a sentient beings to order his experiences and by saying r contains all experiences and so we don’t need t any more is false. r does not in any way replace or make redundant the original use of t.
While I don’t disagree with the main conclusion, I have a problem with the following quote: “The r never repeats itself. The universe is expanding, and in every instant, it gets a little bigger. We don’t need a separate t to keep things straight. When you’re looking at the whole universe, a unique function ψ of (r, t) is pretty much a unique function of r.” The permanent expansion is just some property our universe happens to have, that one could argue is a function of your abstract time variable. Suppose there existed a physical clock somewhere (similar to our human clocks) that was created during the big bang, you could replace “The universe is expanding” by “The clock keeps changing”—just as a proxy of abstract time. So the above paragraph does not add anything useful to the argument?
not to mention that the original t was a marker used by a sentient beings to order his experiences and by saying r contains all experiences and so we don’t need t any more is false. r does not in any way replace or make redundant the original use of t.