Jean-Pierre Dupuy - Complexity and the Metaphysics of Time

Abstract: Contrary to what politicians claim, we do not "create our future." It is no less true that the future is not "already written". I will present a metaphysics of time that is neither constructivist nor fatalistic. It is born when a community of people is pulled forward by an image of the future that it has projected in front of itself, an image that, once overtaken by events, becomes a part of reality. This is a form of bootstrapping or, as I say, of self-transcendence -- a key