How does determinism relate to the block theory of time?
It seems that if every action is the direct result of the action before it, and so on into the future and past of causal relationships, all things are determined to happen. This seems to fit in very nicely with the block theory of time.
To use the block theory one might necessarily have to be a determinist, but simply viewing this theory of time using determinism one would see that causal relations have much to do with how time seems to work. A moment is a theoretical frozen unit of time with the result of all the causal relations before it and after it all the causes of that moment arrayed ahead in the future. Time more acts like a dimension of space, where you can specify a place in time the same way you can specify a point in space.
Free will does not seem to be compatible with the block theory. If free will or some other unforeseen randomness could be proved then we would have more ground to disregard this theory of time.
It seems that if every action is the direct result of the action before it, and so on into the future and past of causal relationships, all things are determined to happen. This seems to fit in very nicely with the block theory of time.
To use the block theory one might necessarily have to be a determinist, but simply viewing this theory of time using determinism one would see that causal relations have much to do with how time seems to work. A moment is a theoretical frozen unit of time with the result of all the causal relations before it and after it all the causes of that moment arrayed ahead in the future. Time more acts like a dimension of space, where you can specify a place in time the same way you can specify a point in space.
Free will does not seem to be compatible with the block theory. If free will or some other unforeseen randomness could be proved then we would have more ground to disregard this theory of time.
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