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Another claim about the significance of decoherence relates to time asymmetry (see e.g. the entries on time asymmetry in thermodynamics and philosophy of statistical mechanics), in particular to whether decoherence can explain the apparent time-directedness in our (classical) world.

This entry deals primarily with philosophical issues; issues related to the physics of time travel are covered in the separate entries on time travel and modern physics and time machines.

Primas (2003, 2009) has proposed a dual-aspect approach where the distinction of mental and material domains originates from the distinction between two different modes of time: tensed (mental) time, including nowness, on the one hand and tenseless (physical) time, viewed as an external parameter, on the other (see the entries on time and on being and becoming in modern physics).

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"Of course, we are memory artists as well…," he wrote of prisoners in his journal, in the entry on "Time Regained".

See also the SEP entry on time.

See for example the entry on Time Machines in this encyclopedia.

(For a fuller description of the A-theory and B-theory, see the Section 5 of the entry on time).

For more on this debate, see section 4.2 of the separate entry on Time Travel, and section 6.3.5 of the separate entry on Location and Mereology.

You can find a more detailed discussion of the nature of time elsewhere in this encyclopedia (see the separate entry on time).

The reader interested in following these debates can find a useful introduction in the entry on time and a review and discussion in Tooley (1999).

But unless there are independent reasons for accepting presentism (see the separate entry on time), it seems like a drastic response to the problem of change.

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