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If our models of time are conceptual consequences from given criteria—often provided by science—these models of time do not follow with deductive certainty from scientific theories. It does not follow from the theory of relativity that time is a human illusion or that arrows of time do not exist.
The facts of physics do not oblige us to accept one philosophy rather than the other.
(Bell 1987: 77)
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Weinert, F. (2016). What Landsberg’s Demon Tells Us and Does not Tell Us About the Arrows of Time. In: The Demons of Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31708-3_27
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