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Indeterminism and the direction of time

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Many phenomena in the world display a striking time-asymmetry: the forwards transition frequencies are approximately invariant while the backwards ones are not. I argue in this paper that theories of such phenomena will entail that time has a direction, and that quantum mechanics in particular entails that the future is objectively different from the past.

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    Frank Arntzenius

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Arntzenius, F. Indeterminism and the direction of time. Topoi 14, 67–81 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00763480

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