Then you don’t think the scale for time goes to infinity either.
So the opening assumption of “infinite past” does not hold. Problem solved.
All modelling of reality is a metaphor because functionally, “signifiers” are never “signifieds”… I’m perfectly willing to accept better metaphors if you have any. I debated James myself at length on various topics and didn’t find any from him, so if you have one of his that I missed or didn’t engage with - it doesn’t matter who made it - I eagerly await you sharing.
The logic is backwards here: “Moving relative to what?” is the exact foundation of relativity, it does the opposite of popping its bubble…
I think intelligence is indicated by the number of bubbles that one is able to accurately entertain in good faith, and wisdom the ability to traverse them, bring them together and rearrange them depending on the situation. Genius would be the ability to create new bubbles that haven’t been created yet - commonly confused with ignorance of bubbles that already exist. Perhaps this conception as a whole would be defined by yourself as a bubble of its own, but that would be tautologous. But this is off topic.
I have nothing against that, depending on how “creation” is defined.
Either way, this would appear to be consistent with the metaphor of the Shepard Tone that I mentioned in my last post: that there is no minimum or maximum time/entropy.
I’m not primarily arguing in favour of, or against a min/max for time/entropy, I’m just saying that by definition, the distinction between time as infinite and entropy as finite is invalid. Thus the opening dilemma is resolved due to its inconsistent assumptions.
If I were to take a position, as I hinted in my last post, it could be summed up by a graph of a hyperbola: letting one asymptote serve as the y-axis that denotes spacetime curvature, and the other asymptote perpendicular to it and serving as the x-axis that denotes entropy - in a similar but not necessarily identical form to f(x) = 1/x. That is to say that entropy is inversely proportional to spacetime curvature. The hyperbola itself is infinite in length, tending towards each axis but never reaching either, and as such never reaches the bounds of “finite beginning and end” - making the conception of things like entropy either being finite or infinite invalid.
But if you wish to take the topic further, it might be more useful to more regularly restate/quote the content of these arguments of JSS and explaining them, than more regularly referencing the fact that they exist. You’re doing some of both, but the balance is the opposite to what it could be. Just a suggestion.