C007Time and becoming
McTaggart’s earlier/later relation distinguishes orientation without supplying a physical explanation of an arrow. His tensed ordering concerns passage, whereas DTT’s dual-arrow language can distinguish the functional direction toward completion from the historical direction of retained records. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C008Time and becoming
A growing block has an ontological orientation: the domain of existing events increases. Presentism has a privileged present but need not describe the past as an accumulating domain. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C009Time and becoming
Eternalism does not require a thermodynamically symmetric universe. A four-dimensional history can have low-entropy conditions toward one end and records pointing in the corresponding direction. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C010Time and becoming
Thermal time connects temporal flow to a state, but modular flow is a group of reversible automorphisms. It does not, simply by existing, establish monotonic entropy production. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C011Time and becoming
The ABL rule is symmetric in the use of preparation and final selection, while an ordinary laboratory record has an asymmetric history of preparation, interaction and storage. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C012Time and becoming
Whitehead’s occasions acquire determinate satisfaction and then contribute to subsequent becoming. This provides a philosophical orientation from inherited conditions to achieved actuality. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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