Hi Marco, Jonathan, Elephant, All
>The time on either side of me, what you call the past and the
>future, are simply memory and imagination.
Humans, other animals, living beings, mitochondria and some inorganic
organizations, have Memory (this concept of memory is probably too broad -
is the quality of the human memory comparable to that of a flip-flop? by the
way, does a society have memory? well, I can't stop here..).
>From memory we can recall past experiences, and our memory of each of these
experiences can include the memory of what was already in our Memory. This
allows us to sequence experiences. Time can then be used to bring coherence
to these sequences of experiences (our notion of time arises simultaneously
with the sequencing as a sort of independent entity). What's in our memory
are perceptions of past experiences - we say that those phenomena occurred
in the past.
Without memory, what sense does time make?
>Prigogine's change is a Copernican revolution that puts the evolutionary
>process at the centre, with time and space orbiting in subservience.
YES! Babies may grab time this way: Perception --> Memory -->
Sequence/Evolution
Time is an intellectual pattern of value with which we associate perceptions
(according to our memory), sequencing them.
Sorry for this independent entity - MEMORY (we're suspended in language,
aren't we?). But now.. is memory "more real" than imagination?
crack time and you'll be eternal,
unite the future with the past
and make the present all.
then, all with be with you
but you will be all alone.
>It is headed somewhere, we know not where,
>and it is headed there because we are too.
>Slowly, quickly, calmly, angrily, we move on.
Time is what you make (of) it,
Joo
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