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The Philosophy of Superdeterminism Supported by Time Discreteness

Bannan, John
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The philosophy of superdeterminism is based on a single scientific fact about the universe, namely that cause and effect in physics are not real. The philosophy of superdeterminism is supported by time discreteness, which says that time does not flow continuously, but rather advances in discrete, indivisible units or steps. Planck time places a fundamental limit on the sub-division of time, which means that time most likely consist of discrete indivisible units of time. The establishment of a causal relationship in physics inherently involves a temporal duration for the influence of the cause to manifest as an effect. However, an indivisible unit of time, by its very definition, would lack any internal temporal structure or duration. Consequently, there would be no "time within the time" to connect the instant of the cause with the subsequent instant of the effect. Moreover, if a cause is limited to a single, indivisible moment of time, and its effect appears in the very next such moment, there is no intervening duration of time for the causation to physically occur rendering it impossible. This likelihood of the discreteness of time supports the idea that our subjective experience of a moving present and causal relationships are an illusion of our predetermined static block universe without cause and effect in physics.
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