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Since the first-order events are, by hypothesis, durationless, it is tempting to suppose that this history takes place in a second temporal dimension.

Being and Becoming in Modern Physics Savitt, Steven 2006

Is it a durationless line dividing past and future?

States of Affairs Wetzel, Thomas 2003

Another outstanding temporalist or “process philos - opher” is Alfred North Whitehead; his metaphysics of events with its emphasis on “the creative advance of nature,” “the immortality of the past” (from which the irreversibility of Becoming follows), and the denial of durationless instants was very close to the views of

TIME MILI�� ��APEK 1968

The dynamic continuity of psychological time is both unity and diversity; but it is neither the abstract homogeneous unity of mathe - matical time nor the dust-like multiplicity of the externally related durationless instants; it is the mnemic continuity in which no sharp separation can be drawn between the successive phases, despite their qualitative heterogeneity.

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It has been correctly pointed out that in the relativistic phys - ics the past is separated from the future not by the durationless three-dimensional “Now” spreading in - stantaneously across the universe as in the physics of

TIME MILI�� ��APEK 1968

The impossibility of building motion from motionless posi - tions, and durations from the durationless instants, follows naturally.

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In other words, the durationless present is a fiction not only in psychology, but in physics as well; even the physical processes have

TIME MILI�� ��APEK 1968

Time is the ordered succession of durationless instants; and these instants are known to us merely as the relata in the serial relation which is the time-ordering relation, and the time-ordering relation is merely known to us as relating the instants.

The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904

(both being inseparable) is a mere fiction, since math - ematical durationless instants are never perceptible and are therefore unreal, Leibniz — like Descartes — believed that both time and any concrete change is divisible ad infinitum, i.e., consists of ever-perishing instants.

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(described as being point-sized, durationless, and made of energy) and states of consciousness.

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