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Intuitionist Mathematics

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Does Time Really Flow?

Kant says two different times must be successive, however, if we have a particle in two different states, at the same time, we have two different times coexisting, which isn't possible according to Kant's perspective on Time as an intuition, or form of knowing. Recently, Swiss physicist Nicolas Gisin published a number of papers attempting to clarify the issue around time, claiming that the issue is largely a mathematical problem, returning to an old mathematical language referred to as Intuitionist Mathematics, rejecting the idea of numbers with infinitely many digits.

Does Time Really Flow?

Another benefit of IM, is that it allows for a shift in our understanding of the conscious experience of time, with the fact that we experience the present as thick, more like a range of points on a timeline, than the singular point it (perhaps, mathematically) is. This is very similar to the "continuum being sticky", with regards to decimals, hinting that it may be the same process that undergirds our perception of now: in short, time can't be divided in two cleanly- it's like cutting honey. While there's still a lot of work to do with this theory, it seems to have drawn mostly positive reactions from the community, offering novel ways of thinking about the problem of time, information, and the fundamental nature of reality.