What do you think of the conceptualization of time? I am reading a scholar who suggests that the division of time into past, present, and future is a spatialization of temporality, and therefore a “mistake” in so much as time is not space. What say you?
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The way I see it, the linear way that humans experience time is not really a mistake. The past, the ever-present, and the future is the easiest way our mind can conceive to mediate reality. I don’t know for sure, but I would imagine this is extraordinarily different to the way that a fly or a rock would experience time.
I don’t think the human mind, which always exists within a single moment but is still able to maintain awareness of previous moments and anticipate coming ones, could understand time as it exists in a cosmic sense.
It’s like being really tiny and looking at a massively giant painting. Just because we don’t see how all the composition and colors work together doesn’t mean the parts that we do see are a mistake.
Another interesting things to consider is time in altered states.
In non-conscious times like dreaming or drug-use (or death presumably?) our perception of time acts in an entirely different way than conscious time.
