Abstract
AbstractPixelism is the combination of three metaphysical thesis, namely a radical form of exdurantism, mereological nihilism and counterpart theory. Pixelism is a theory that evaluates all the metaphysical phenomena of persistence, composition and modality in a homogeneous and consistent manner. In a pixel world, there is no identity over time and over possible worlds and nothing persists over more than an instant or a world. Entities can be univocally identified by a five-coordinates system (the three spatial dimensions, the temporal one and the possible worlds), and their relation is a counterpart relation both in different worlds and at different times or different regions of space. In this paper I will provide two models for pixelism: the first one takes pixels to be hypercubes, i. e. four-dimensional cubes, the acceptance of which is conditional on the acceptance of extended simples. The second one considers pixels as points in a four-dimensional space.
Highlights
The second one considers pixels as points in a four-dimensional space. Such geometrical depictions have many advantages. They provides a way to consider under a different light the metaphysical implications of pixelism; second, they permit to analyze in a very simple way the modal implications of such a theory; third, they show the elegance of pixelism: entities persist, compose and exist in different world in the same way, namely as pixels in a five-dimensional space, which consists in the three spatial coordinates, the temporal one and the modal one
Pixelism is the conjunction of three metaphysical theses about persistence, composition, and modality, namely a radical form of exdurantism, mereological nihilism, and counterpart theory
A transdurantist entity is something that moves along the five coordinates of a five-dimensional space only fictionally
Summary
As pixels do not “merge” to depict what you see on the screen, exdurantist entities do not go under temporal composition, and nihilistic entities do not go under spatial composition. The second one considers pixels as points in a four-dimensional space. They provides a way to consider under a different light the metaphysical implications of pixelism; second, they permit to analyze in a very simple way the modal implications of such a theory; third, they show the elegance of pixelism: entities persist, compose and exist in different world in the same way, namely as pixels in a five-dimensional space, which consists in the three spatial coordinates, the temporal one and the modal one
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