The Thermodynamic, Psychological And Cosmological Arrows Of Time Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [2]

Hawking (1988: 152):

To summarise, the laws of science do not distinguish between the forward and backward directions of time. However, there are at least three arrows of time that do distinguish the past from the future. They are the thermodynamic arrow, the direction of time in which disorder increases; the psychological arrow, the direction of time in which we remember the past and not the future; and the cosmological arrow, the direction of time in which the universe expands rather than contracts.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, there is only one direction of time, since time is the dimension along which processes unfold — whether the processes are material (e.g. thermodynamic), mental-verbal (e.g. psychological) or relational (e.g. cosmological).