Ignorance of the own past

Erkenntnis 48 (1):41-48 (1998)
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It is shown that for an inside observer it is impossible to distinguish all states in which a system was at some past time. This holds for classical and quantum systems, but an assumption of determinism is essential in the proof.

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The emperor’s new mind.Roger Penrose - 1989 - Oxford University Press.
The impossibility of accurate state self-measurements.Thomas Breuer - 1995 - Philosophy of Science 62 (2):197-214.

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