Spacetime emergence and the fear of intimacy.
We provide a reply to the Argument from Intimacy on behalf of defenders of emergent spacetime in theories of quantum gravity. We argue that if one accepts that spacetime regions are nowhere in the sense that they are locations but do not have locations, then the Argument from Intimacy can be resolve...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 183; no. 1; pp. 45 - 70 |
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