Asymmetry of concern
We more concerned about the future than about the past. We might anticipate or fear future events, and regret past ones. Can the block universe view that sees past present and future as equally real explain tensed beliefs and tensed emotions?
This argument was advanced in a 1959 paper titled 'Thank Goodness That's Over' by philosopher Arthur Prior (see citation) and was widely seen as presenting a fundamental objection to the block universe view. How do you translate relief that some unpleasant event - such as a visit to the dentist - is in the past into the tenseless language of the block universe view?
Remarkably Prior has a
Facebook page, despite being deceased - equally real today as when he was in his prime!