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Philosophy - Does the block universe theory of time mean that life will repeat after death?

You are worrying unnecessarily. For reasons I cannot fathom, there is more nonsense written about time than any other aspect of physics. You can if you wish consider spacetime to be a block, but the ...
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Philosophy - Does the block universe theory of time mean that life will repeat after death?

The short answer is “no”. Block times approach to experience is to treat it as an illusion. Plus block time has no repeating in it. The longer answer is that no, block time is not the consensus view ...
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How is causal order not assuming directionality of time?

Here's my attempt: Huw Price has said of Reichenbach in general that he was talking about, and made clear(ish) that, the local thermodynamic gradient does not give a global direction to time. Here's ...
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How is causal order not assuming directionality of time?

What he is saying is that if you consider, for example, this answer, it grows on my screen letter-by-letter as I type it. Each letter appears as a result of a cause, namely my finger hitting a key ...
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How is causal order not assuming directionality of time?

In short: Time have two forms natural - circle and artificial - timeline. The causa is an external viewing outside the process and time, that is why Time have a circle from. Thou art Time. But when ...
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Is it possible for God to exist outside of time?

Your question is characterised by the fact that you are trying to use logic and concepts from human experience to argue against an idea that transcends both. The ideas of 'god' and 'existing out of ...
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Is it possible for God to exist outside of time?

If one reads the comments here, one may be led to believe they were made by people who are educated and intelligent. Except, they are 100% wrong. They have been, as have so many, been led astray, ...
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What is the justification for Deleuze's 3rd synthesis of time?

Deleuze's 3rd synthesis of time is clearly related to what Derrida is referring to in Heidegger: The Question of Being & History, (pages 180-181) quoted below. It can be connected to will and ...
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