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COMPLEX TIME: Adaptation, Aging, & Arrow of Time

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Name
Andrew Reinhard
Affiliation
Univ. York
Email address
adr520@york.ac.uk

Biography

Andrew studies the archaeology of digital spaces and how humans inhabit them and founded the subdiscipline of video game archaeology (aka archaeogaming). In 2014 he helped excavate the Atari Burial Ground in Alamogordo, NM. In 2018 he documented the mass migration of hundreds of players in the game No Man's Sky who were displaced by a catastrophic climate change event.

Involvement in the Complex Time Research Theme

“Let us draw an arrow arbitrarily. If as we follow the arrow we find more and more of the random element in the state of the world, then the arrow is pointing towards the future; if the random element decreases the arrow points toward the past… I shall use the phrase “time’s arrow” to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.”
-Arthur Eddington
“It was Darwin’s chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable, are given in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence, rather than their occurrence, which becomes highly improbable.”
-Ronald A. Fisher