Do Brains Have an Arrow of Time?

There is a persisting tension that exists between the block universe conception of time in modern physics and philosophy and the conception of time that stems naturally from experience, and entropic asymmetries have been proposed to explain this tension. This article argues that as biochemical proce...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 81; no. 2; pp. 265 - 276
Autor principal: Smith, Ryan
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press Apr2014
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