论文标题
时间现象的认知分析
An Epistemic Analysis of Time Phenomenon
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论文摘要
在这项工作中，我们使用信息理论和模块化理论的数学机制对时间现象进行了认知分析。通过采取对时间演变本体的承诺，并主要依靠观察者可以访问的信息，我们发现，时间体验的最主要方面，即世界各州的独特性，是一种纯粹的认知功能。通过分析这种认知功能的数学特性，我们将其解释为对世界上任何一个世界状态的原则上都不敏感，这得出的结论是，观察者会遭受时间体验，而与世界潜在的世界状态无关。基于提出的分析，我们还为面临热时间假设的非平衡现象的概念挑战提供了解决方案。
In this work we present an epistemic analysis of time phenomenon using the mathematical machinery of information theory and modular theory. By adopting limited commitment to the ontology of time evolution, and instead by mainly relying on the information that is in principle accessible to the observer, we find that the most primary aspect of the temporal experience, the perceived distinctiveness across the states of the world, emerges as a purely epistemic function. By analyzing the mathematical properties of this epistemic function, we interpret it to be in principle insensitive to any ontic state of the world, which leads to the conclusion that the observer is subject to temporal experience irrespective of whether the underlying state of the world is dynamical or invariant. On the ground of the presented analysis, we also provide a solution to the conceptual challenge of non-equilibrium phenomena that faces the thermal time hypothesis.
