Plato, you bastard.

[bec_87rb]

Reading on the VRE the initial chapters of a book by Lee Smolin, Time Reborn. (I get the impression he is controversial in his field of physics.) He is claiming that the Platonists have won, that modern western scientific thinking is that time is an illusion and that the laws of nature are out of the flow of time, that they exist on some eternal

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[chhinnamasta]

FYI, Carroll is a proponent of the inflationary multiverse theory. So his view does serve as counterpoint to Smolin's cosmic natural selection view, if you can bear the tedium of the read.