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8.1 Introduction 8.1 Introduction
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8.2 Setting the stage: Neutral monism, the generation problem, and time as experienced 8.2 Setting the stage: Neutral monism, the generation problem, and time as experienced
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8.3 Relational Blockworld and neutral monism: The generation problem and time as experienced explained 8.3 Relational Blockworld and neutral monism: The generation problem and time as experienced explained
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8.4 The Direction of time 8.4 The Direction of time
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8.5 Neutral monism, time as experienced, extended cognitive science, and phenomenology 8.5 Neutral monism, time as experienced, extended cognitive science, and phenomenology
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8.6 Relational Blockworld: Time, freedom, and spontaneity 8.6 Relational Blockworld: Time, freedom, and spontaneity
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8.7 The neutral presence: Reconciling the ant’s-eye perspective with a view from the God’s-eye perspective 8.7 The neutral presence: Reconciling the ant’s-eye perspective with a view from the God’s-eye perspective
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8.8 Conclusion 8.8 Conclusion
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8 Relational Blockworld: Experience, Time, and Space Reintegrated
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Published:February 2018
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Abstract
Chapter 8 argues that the Relational Blockworld (RBW) account naturally admits a kind of neutral monism that simultaneously deflates the generation/hard problem and explains time as experienced. Thus, the claim that the block universe is incompatible with time as experienced is refuted. The first section sets the stage, the second focuses on the Passage of time, and the third focuses on the Direction of time. Section four argues that embodied, embedded, and extended cognitive science and phenomenology support the neutral monism of RBW. The fifth section focuses on freedom, spontaneity, and creativity in RBW. Objections to the block universe picture based on free will in human action and creativity and spontaneity in the universe writ large are refuted. It is shown that RBW has all the freedom, creativity, and spontaneity anyone could reasonably hope for. Section six characterizes Presence in detail, and its relation to time as experienced is discussed.
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