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    Graduate Julian Barbour on does time exist

    Hi Marcus, Thanks for those posts and I appreciate those links, I’ll look through them. (in particular the ‘emergent’ aspect etc). I want to air all my thoughts on many of the points you raise (because I genuinely think I have a meaningful answer to each of them), but that would create a...
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    Graduate Julian Barbour on does time exist

    Hi Marcus, Thank you very much for that reply. Thanks for clarifying the 'subtle difference in the way we TREAT intervals of time and the changes that correspond to them'. I see what you are saying + I will have to read up on this and some of the other details you mention to address them...
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    Graduate Julian Barbour on does time exist

    Hi Marcus, Thank you very much for your reply. This is pretty much my 4th version of a reply to you, just trying to keep it short. I have so much to say on this subject that my posts often end up being far too long unless I’m very careful. So excuse me if I don’t address each of your points...
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    Graduate Julian Barbour on does time exist

    Dear Marcus Hi, I`m new to this thread, and I think it is very well conducted, and please excuse my butting in. But I would like to respectfully say that I question/disagree with your view... “I think everybody in the thread would go along with the idea that time is real and vitally...