HalFinney comments on Mach's Principle: Anti-Epiphenomenal Physics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: HalFinney 30 May 2008 06:41:05PM 0 points [-]

I found the essay that prompted my previous message. It is "Time Without Change" by Sydney Shoemaker. His book Identity, Cause and Mind presents the thought experiment on pages 55-57. Shoemaker raises the possibility that time could stop for the universe as a whole, which has much the same flavor.