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A One-Dimensional Universe (concl.)
❝The clock indicates the moment . . . . but what does
eternity indicate?❞
— Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass
It might be thought an independent time variable needs to be brought in
at this point but it is an insight of fundamental importance to realize the
idea of process is logically prior to the notion of time. A time variable
is a reference to a “clock” — a canonical, conventional process accepted or
established as a standard of measurement but in essence no different than
any other process.
That raises questions of how different subsystems in a more global process
can be brought into comparison and what it means for one process to serve
the function of a local standard for others. Inquiries of that order
serve but to wrap up our present puzzles in further riddles and are
far too involved to be handled at our current level of approximation.
We'll return to them another time.
Observe how the secular inference rules, used by themselves, involve
a loss of information, since nothing in them tells whether the momenta
{¬dA, dA} are changed or unchanged in the next moment. To know that
one would have to determine d²A, and so on, pursuing an infinite regress.
In order to rest with a finitely determinate system it is necessary to
make an infinite assumption, for example, that dⁿA = 0 for all n greater
than some fixed value M. Another way to escape the regress is through the
provision of a dynamic law, in typical form making higher order differentials
dependent on lower degrees and estates.
Resources —
Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems
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https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part…
Differential Logic • One-Dimensional Universe
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https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part…
Regards,
Jon
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