An Absurd Man

A question of temporality…

It seems evident that time exists in an intangible, unimaginable state. We can imagine a world where time “stops” such as in a film, but it must be recognised that time passes within a time hole, making temporality still a fact regardless of the imagind time “level.”

I’m not exactly proposing that we try to cognitize a world without time, I’m just explaining that I have thus far not been able to do this myself.

Moving on, though, that time exists as a sort of reality, that events happen in sequence (not adding ANY meaning to said sequence) seems undeniable, but the existence of time as an entity is then equally as deniable.

Granting being to time grants it a certain place not AS reality itself but rather as something INSIDE reality. Thus, I seem to reach the conclusion that time may be a system of measuring reality, invented to grant “structure” to lives void of meaning, but it can’t be said to exist as a thing in itself by any means!

This then raises the question of the consistency of time. Certain moods will cause certain events to happen in sequence quicker or slower, is it illusory or legitimate?

Searle is right. Computer programs have no more intelligence than a plastic trash can lid in McDonalds that says THANK YOU has politeness. Panpsychism is right too though. Or more like panexperientialism, but probably only for naturally occurring whole bodies. Atoms, molecules, cells, bodies. Everything has an experience on some level but it may not be the level that we assume. An alarm clock doesn’t know what time it is or that it is an alarm clock, but the matter that the clock is made of is holding itself together and responding dynamically to environmental conditions in its own way for its own motives that make sense in its own context. Our context is very different and only overlap on the physical level. The semantic level of interpreting time from a clock or true understanding from a program is pure anthropomorphizing projection, like a puppet or a stuffed animal. It’s just a furry bag with styrofoam inside.

Thanks, I really liked this.

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