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