The being of the past in the present: memory and information

Introduction:

The time is irreversible. The present is qualitatively different from the past. Thus, the transition from the past to the present should be a leap from one quality to another quality. Furthermore, the former quality can be transformed into the latter, but not vice versa.

Then, what is the form by which the past is represented in the present as far as the proper quality of the past cannot be conserved literally in the present?

On the other hand, any human being has the past in the present as memory. One differs qualitatively the memory of the past from the action of the present. It seems: the transformation of memory into action is possible only by the meditation of an actor such as a human being, but not immediately.

All physical theories includes time as a fundamental physical quantity. However, they interpret the quantity of time in two, absolutely incompatible ways: either as reversible (e.g. classical mechanics, special and general relativity) or as irreversible (e.g. thermodynamics). The transition from the former to the latter interpretation is due to the viewpoint change from an element (such as an atom or molecule obeying the reversible concept of time) to the huge system of many, many elements sharing a state distribution of the system as a whole (obeying the irreversible concept of time).

Quantum mechanics was forced to unify consistently both mechanic and thermodynamic approach to time and thus both incompatible (as reversible as irreversible) concepts of physical time for the fundamental Planck constant being thermodynamic in essence, but involved in mechanics. Thus, physics in turn approaches the problem how the past should be in the present in such a way to reconcile the reversibility and irreversibility of time as a physical quantity.

One can add Husserl’s conception of the past in the present as retention (“Retention”) vs. future in the present as anticipation (“Protention”).

Theses:

(1) The present has the past only as information (memory).

(2) Information is transformed into action in the present.

(3) The physical quantity of (quantum) information is transformed directly and explicitly into the physical quantity of action by the Planck constant.

(4) Thus, the Planck constant describes quantitatively the transformation of the past (information) into the present (action) as equivalency.

(5) Nevertheless, information and action are two different physical quantities and thus two different qualities corresponding to the different qualities of the past and the present.

(6) The transformation from the past into the present is fundamentally the same in human beings and nature therefore generating a series of misinterpretations of quantum mechanics as “subjective” (ostensibly) vs. the rest science being “objective”.

(7) The past can be always represented as a series ‘well-ordered’ in the rigorous mathematical meaning. Space exists only in the present being the process of ordering of a set of well-orderings different from any point of space into a single well-ordered series of the past.

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