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Originally Posted by Polmear
Isn't time more intimately associated with a change in entropy than with any form of perception? In the forward direction there is a gradual increase in total entropy, whilst the reverse direction leads inevitably to the BB. Time therefore ends with the heat death of the universe.
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Quite so.
Contrary to this, so called "(super) Strong anthropic principle" ((which I personally think is sheer nonsense) that some people advocate, is telling us that everything (including time) exists because we perceive it. In a nutshell, they claim that "because we exist, the universe must be the way it is"..
In my "school of thought" however, we exist just because the conditions in the universe happen to be right.. so we are perceiving what really exist (not that we are capable of seeing everything of course.. we see and perceive parameters that are relevant to our existence as species, living organisms..).
Thanks to our mind (pure overhead from the evolution point of view - we would survive as species even if we were not much more clever than monkeys - it may happen that our mind will de the very cause of our own demise as species, in the future) and our tool -making capabilities, we can see (detect, measure, contemplate) much more than that minimum. But we still may be quite limited in the ability to perceive many things - and that may be quite irrelevant in fact (do the things that in principle can't be detected and measured really exist? if you ask me, the answer is no)