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Neither Presentism nor Eternalism

Carlo Rovelli

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Is reality three-dimensional and becoming real (Presentism), or is reality four-dimensional and becoming illusory (Eternalism)? Both options raise difficulties. I argue that we do not need to be trapped by this dilemma. There is a third possibility: reality has a more complex temporal structure than either of these two naive options. Fundamental becoming is real, but local and unoriented. A notion of present is well defined, but only locally and in the context of approximations.
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Carlo Rovelli. Neither Presentism nor Eternalism. 2024. ⟨hal-02403773⟩
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