Introduction
In a wink of an eye, the image of a thought, an instant epiphany of awareness, comes abroad. In this vast informational age of concepts, beliefs, and perceptions. And the perpetual analogies that coincide like a branching tree. You can “See”, various evolutionary archetypal patterns of people, and their operations in nature. It’s like watching the same “Movie” with new characters, but of course with better graphics and bigger budgets. What about polarization of behavior pertaining to old and new concepts, beliefs and perceptions. How sociological patterns, interactions like social media and different cultures tend to clash with human cognitive inertia back and forth in the temporal dimension of time. Ever changing economical, environmental and hypothetical views of the future also seem to tip the metaphorical scale of life up and down from time to time. Lets think of a platform like 'YouTube" as an example, of how one topic can become a metamorphosis of something so simple into a complex issue due to how "Humanity" as a whole is the trunk of a tree, YouTube a branch, channels on YouTube are leaves on that branch and so on. In speculation, we follow a natural evolutionary frame structure, with number, geometry and language similar to a branching tree in nature. So in the "Rabbit Hole" of speculative inquiring. My question is about nature's ability to frame structure in the animal, plant and geological aspects of Earth, as if Mother Nature is conscious in some subtle unseen way. Also on how the idea of Psychological space/time implies how Relativity Theory affects our perception of time. A lot more questions, few answers.
Correlations
Have you ever asked your self this question. Why does it seem, that humanity as a whole, repeat social, psychological, philosophical, mental and physical constructs. Not in a causality perspective, but a correlational aspect. More of a mutual relationship or connection of ideas and structures that are analogs to one another. That in time have evolved with different descriptions of language, context and details. But with the fundamental underlying framing of the idea's mental structure still remaining. Example; getting up at the same time, same driving routine, work your hours, clock out and drive back home. In other words, we are bound by the same pattern of forward motion of date, time, and place to access points in space/time as we gravitate towards the future. Always gravitating towards the next task or event, in a different place, like if we are being pulled into the future and not pushed. This mental frame of reference, in are daily routine works with causality to navigate in the physical world. But yet in our mind's memory it can be played back and forth like our own subjective movie. We repeat days, weeks, months, and years in a cyclical manner, but perceive it as linear. The idea of repetitive days in a week is more like a mental blueprint frame of reference, but the experience of that mental blueprint becomes more like water crashing on rocks in a creek creating obstacles in the flow. Which create change in flow, dynamics and learning curves. Just a correlation in mental space of how one day differs to another. The daily construct of routine works in a sequence, which builds up mental and physical structures, but are only relatives to one another as you go thru the experience of the Temporal Dimension of time which we perceive as change. Below are some visual representations of date, time and place.
Cyclical Time
Date- Day- Month- Year
Time-Yesterday- Today-Tomorrow
PLace- Area- Region- Spot
The Temporal Dimension of time creates change, dynamics and learning curves as we go thru the experience of life experience. The daily experience can take form in a positive or negative aspect, but always reaches a balance of forward momentum of getting thru the day. In a speculative way, we tend to follow similar patterns of growth, in both a constructive and destructive manner. Whether the pattern falls apart or multiply in a bigger pattern depends on the perceptual awareness of how the emotional response and value was taken.
Emotional Response Representation
Let’s think of time flowing thru space in a organized imaginative way as an observer. Visualizing correlation as a image of time flowing like water thru objects and events in space. With a relational prospective of distance and timing between to points in space. Synchronicity as an intuitive feeling of tempo and sequenced timing of events. Serendipity the awareness of occurrence and development of events, when correlation and synchronicity unify creating useful subjective- objective patterns of unplanned fortunate discoveries.
Correlational Visual Representations of Time
Observer Space Time (click to enlarge)
Spatial Time- Change in Time Flowing thru space
Clock- Angular Time
Hours of the Day- Angles in degrees
Linear Time- Past- Present- Future
An idea's point of view becomes a potential, the idea's potential, lines up in a binding of opposing courses of action, rather it will be a good or bad idea. The Idea's plane implementation takes form after the idea is subscribed to the multitude to accept or defy. After the idea's form becomes solid, it materializes into a new way of doing things in a mental or physical aspiration. In a abstract simple explanation, we frame our imagination in a organized habitual patterns that are analogous to computer algorithms. In a broader spectrum, the objectivity of humanity's cognitive inertia has implemented these habitual patterns that are similar to programmed computer algorithms. But instead of using a keyboard in a computer, we create narratives and follow cultural conditions to create these habitual patterns. The narratives and cultural conditions change over time as we evolve in technological and conscious awareness, just as algorithms also grow in complexity as technology gets better. Below are some Examples of how our imagination creates useful patterns in a Threefold division. So if we dwell into the 'Rabbit Hole" of speculation and conversation, of consciousness, space, time and technology. A lot of more questions arise, then answers.
Patterns of Threefold Division
- Initiating -
- Consolidating -
- Adapting -
Time Perception is a field of study within psychology, cognitive linguistics and neuroscience that refers to the subjective experience, or sense of time, which is measured by someone's own perception of the duration of the indefinite and unfolding of events. The perceived time interval between two successive events is referred to as perceived duration. Though directly experiencing or understanding another person's perception of time is not possible, such a perception can be objectively studied and inferred through a number of scientific experiments. Some temporal illusions help to expose the underlying neural mechanisms of time perception.
Example Psychological time: Our subjective judgement of duration, determined by the events and circumstances of the moment. One perceives that a weekend jammed full of fun activities flew by, whereas reading a thick book for class feels like it takes days.
Velocity Time Dilation
Special relativity indicates that, for an observer in an inertial frame of reference, a clock that is moving relative to him will be measured to tick slower than a clock that is at rest in his frame of reference. This case is sometimes called special relativistic time dilation. The faster the relative velocity, the greater the time dilation between one another, with the rate of time reaching zero as one approaches the speed of light (299,792,458 m/s). This causes massless particles that travel at the speed of light to be unaffected by the passage of time.
Theoretically, time dilation would make it possible for passengers in a fast-moving vehicle to advance further into the future in a short period of their own time. For sufficiently high speeds, the effect is dramatic. For example, one year of travel might correspond to ten years on Earth.
Gravitational Time Dilation
Gravitational time dilation is a form of time dilation, an actual difference of elapsed time between two events as measured by observers situated at varying distances from a gravitating mass.
Example: The lower the gravitational potential (the closer the clock is to the source of gravitation,
the slower time passes, speeding up as the gravitational potential increases the clock getting away
from the source of gravitation. Albert Einstein originally predicted this effect in his theory of relativity and it has since been confirmed by tests of general relativity.
Time
The Law of Time
The Law of Time distinguishes between a natural timing frequency that governs the universal order, and an artificial timing frequency which sets modern human civilization apart from the rest of it's environment, the biosphere.
Temporal dimension: is a dimension of time. Time is often referred to as the "fourth dimension" for this reason, but that is not to imply that it is a spatial dimension. A temporal dimension is one way to measure physical change.
Time, and it’s correlation with subjective perception of past, present, and future. Most of the time, we tend to oversee how we drift our imagination from past, present, and future thoughts as we go thru our daily routines. By using our memories, and present awareness we tend to forecast the future to find solutions and fix problems with past, present and future patterns (“Imagination”) to create new patterns. In other words, a form of (“ Precognition”). Sometimes the patterns are in language, analogy, or symbolical in some kind of way. But the language, analogy, or symbolical pattern tend to be related to subjective concepts, beliefs, and perceptional points of view of understanding. So past, present, and future may correlate with memory, awareness, and precognition. Below are brief descriptions of memory, awareness and precognition.
Memory is the faculty of the brain by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. Memory is vital to experiences, it is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If we could not remember past events, we could not learn or develop language, relationships, or personal identity.
Awareness is the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be cognizant of events. More broadly, it is the state of being conscious of something. Another definition describes it as a state wherein a subject is aware of some information when that information is directly available to bring to bear in the direction of a wide range of behavioral processes. The concept is often synonymous to consciousness and is also understood as being consciousness itself.
Precognition (from the Latin prae-, "before" and cognitio, "acquiring knowledge"), also called prescience, future vision, future sight is a claimed psychic ability to see events in the future. As with other forms of extrasensory perception, there is no accepted scientific evidence that precognition is a real phenomenon and it is widely considered to be pseudoscience. Precognition also appears to violate the principle of causality, that an effect cannot occur before its cause. Precognition has been widely believed in throughout history. Despite the lack of scientific evidence, many people still believe it to be real; it is still widely reported and remains a topic of research and discussion within the parapsychology community.
Retrocausality or backwards causation, is a concept of cause and effect in which an effect precedes its cause in time and so a later event affects an earlier one. In quantum physics, the distinction between cause and effect is not made at the most fundamental level and so time-symmetric systems can be viewed as causal or retrocausal.[3] Philosophical considerations of time travel often address the same issues as retrocausality, as do treatments of the subject in fiction, but the two phenomena are distinct.
Morphic Resonance
Sheldrake's morphic resonance posits that "memory is inherent in nature" and that "natural systems... inherit a collective memory from all previous things of their kind."Sheldrake proposes that it is also responsible for "telepathy-type interconnections between organisms." His advocacy of the idea offers idiosyncratic explanations of standard subjects in biology such as development, inheritance, and memory.
In particular, it need not be attenuated by either spatial or temporal separation between similar systems; it could be just as effective over 10,000 miles as over an inch, and over a century as over an hour. Morphic resonance is nonenergetic, and morphogenetic fields themselves are neither a type of mass nor energy. Therefore there seems to be no a priori reason why it should obey the laws that have been found to apply to the movement of bodies, particles, and waves. The assumption that morphic resonance is not attenuated by time and space will be adopted as a provisional working hypothesis, on the ground of simplicity. It will also be assumed on the ground of simplicity that morphic resonance takes place only from the past, that only morphic units that have already actually existed are able to exert a morphic influence in the present. Morphic resonance is analogous to energetic resonance in a further respect: it takes place between vibrating systems. Atoms, molecules, crystals, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, and organisms are all made up of parts in ceaseless oscillation, and all have their own characteristic patterns of vibration and internal rhythm; the morphic units are dynamic, not static. But whereas energetic resonance depends only on the specificity of response to particular frequencies, to “one-dimensional” stimuli, morphic resonance depends on three-dimensional patterns of vibration. By morphic resonance the form of a system, including its characteristic internal structure and vibrational frequencies, becomes present to a subsequent system with a similar form; the spatio-temporal pattern of the former superimposes itself on the latter. Morphic resonance is not accepted by the scientific community and Sheldrake's proposals relating to it have been widely criticised.
Sheldrake, Rupert. Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation
SPACE
Space
Space: A continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied. The dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move:
Spatial Dimensions: Classical physics theories describe three physical dimensions: from a particular point in space, the basic directions in which we can move are up/down, left/right, and forward/backward. Movement in any other direction can be expressed in terms of just these three.
Temporal dimension: is a dimension of time. Time is often referred to as the "fourth dimension" for this reason, but that is not to imply that it is a spatial dimension. A temporal dimension is one way to measure physical change.
Visual Space: is the perceptual space housing the visual world being experienced by an aware observer; it is the subjective counterpart of the space of physical objects before an observer's eyes.
Cartesian Coordinate System
The Allegory of the Cave from the Republic of Plato
The Republic is the centerpiece of Plato's philosophy, and centrally concerned with how people acquire knowledge about beauty, justice, and good. The Allegory of the Cave uses a metaphor of prisoners kept chained in the dark to explain the difficulties of reaching and sustaining a just and intellectual spirit.
The Allegory's Meaning
In the next chapter of The Republic, Socrates explains what he meant, that the cave represents the world, the region of life which is revealed to us only through the sense of sight. The ascent out of the cave is the journey of the soul into the region of the intelligible.
The path to enlightenment is painful and arduous, says Plato, and requires that we make four stages in our development.
1. Imprisonment in the cave (the imaginary world)
2. Release from chains (the real, sensual world)
3. Ascent out of the cave (the world of ideas)
4. The way back to help our fellows
The allegory contains many forms of symbolism used to instruct the reader in the nature of perception. The cave represents superficial physical reality. It also represents ignorance, as those in the cave live accepting what they see at face value. Ignorance is further represented by the darkness that engulfs them because they cannot know the true objects that form the shadows, leading them to believe the shadows are the true forms of the objects. The chains that prevent the prisoners from leaving the cave represent that they are trapped in ignorance, as the chains are stopping them from learning the truth. The shadows cast on the walls of the cave represent the superficial truth, which is the illusion that the prisoners see in the cave. The freed prisoner represents those who understand that the physical world is only a shadow of the truth, and the sun that is glaring the eyes of the prisoners represents the higher truth of ideas. The light further represents wisdom, as even the paltry light that makes it into the cave allows the prisoners to know shapes.
CONSCIOUSNESS
Consciousness
Consciousness at its simplest is "awareness or sentience of internal or external existence". Despite centuries of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being "at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives". Perhaps the only widely agreed notion about the topic is the intuition that it exists. Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied and explained as consciousness. Sometimes it is synonymous with 'the mind', other times just an aspect of mind. In the past it was one's "inner life", the world of introspection, of private thought, imagination and volition. Today, with modern research into the brain it often includes any kind of experience, cognition, feeling or perception. It may be 'awareness', or 'awareness of awareness', or self-awareness. There might be different levels or orders of consciousness, or different kinds of consciousness, or just one kind with different features. Other questions include whether only humans are conscious or all animals or even the whole universe. The disparate range of research, notions and speculations raises doubts whether the right questions are being asked.
Materialistic Views of Consciousness
Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental aspects and consciousness, are results of material interactions.
In Idealism, mind and consciousness are first-order realities to which matter is subject and secondary. In philosophical materialism the converse is true. Here mind and consciousness are by-products or epiphenomena of material processes (the biochemistry of the human brain and nervous system, for example) without which they cannot exist. According to this doctrine the material creates and determines consciousness, not vice versa.
Philosophical views of Consciousness
Most modern philosophers of mind adopt either a reductive or non-reductive physicalist position, maintaining in their different ways that the mind is not something separate from the body.[ These approaches have been particularly influential in the sciences, especially in the fields of sociobiology, computer science (specifically, artificial intelligence), evolutionary psychology and the various neurosciences. Reductive physicalists assert that all mental states and properties will eventually be explained by scientific accounts of physiological processes and states. Non-reductive physicalists argue that although the mind is not a separate substance, mental properties supervene on physical properties, or that the predicates and vocabulary used in mental descriptions and explanations are indispensable, and cannot be reduced to the language and lower-level explanations of physical science.Continued neuroscientific progress has helped to clarify some of these issues; however, they are far from being resolved. Modern philosophers of mind continue to ask how the subjective qualities and the intentionality of mental states and properties can be explained in naturalistic terms.
Metaphysical views of Consciousness
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with the ultimate nature of reality. There are two broad traditional and competing metaphysical views concerning the nature of the mind and conscious mental states: dualism and materialism. While there are many versions of each, the former generally holds that the conscious mind or a conscious mental state is non-physical in some sense. On the other hand, materialists hold that the mind is the brain, or, more accurately, that conscious mental activity is identical with neural activity. It is important to recognize that by non-physical, dualists do not merely mean “not visible to the naked eye.” Many physical things fit this description, such as the atoms which make up the air in a typical room. For something to be non-physical, it must literally be outside the realm of physics; that is, not in space at all and undetectable in principle by the instruments of physics. It is equally important to recognize that the category “physical” is broader than the category “material.” Materialists are called such because there is the tendency to view the brain, a material thing, as the most likely physical candidate to identify with the mind. However, something might be physical but not material in this sense, such as an electromagnetic or energy field. One might therefore instead be a “physicalist” in some broader sense and still not a dualist. Thus, to say that the mind is non-physical is to say something much stronger than that it is non-material. Dualists, then, tend to believe that conscious mental states or minds are radically different from anything in the physical world at all.
One might wonder “even if the mind is physical, what about the soul?” Maybe it’s the soul, not the mind, which is non-physical as one might be told in many religious traditions. While it is true that the term “soul” (or “spirit”) is often used instead of “mind” in such religious contexts, the problem is that it is unclear just how the soul is supposed to differ from the mind. The terms are often even used interchangeably in many historical texts and by many philosophers because it is unclear what else the soul could be other than “the mental substance.” It is difficult to describe the soul in any way that doesn’t make it sound like what we mean by the mind. After all, that’s what many believe goes on after bodily death; namely, conscious mental activity. Granted that the term “soul” carries a more theological connotation, but it doesn’t follow that the words “soul” and “mind” refer to entirely different things. Somewhat related to the issue of immortality, the existence of near death experiences is also used as some evidence for dualism and immortality. Such patients experience a peaceful moving toward a light through a tunnel like structure, or are able to see doctors working on their bodies while hovering over them in an emergency room (sometimes akin to what is called an “out of body experience”). In response, materialists will point out that such experiences can be artificially induced in various experimental situations, and that starving the brain of oxygen is known to cause hallucinations.
Various paranormal and psychic phenomena, such as clairvoyance, faith healing, and mind-reading, are sometimes also cited as evidence for dualism. However, materialists (and even many dualists) will first likely wish to be skeptical of the alleged phenomena themselves for numerous reasons. There are many modern day charlatans who should make us seriously question whether there really are such phenomena or mental abilities in the first place. Second, it is not quite clear just how dualism follows from such phenomena even if they are genuine. A materialist, or physicalist at least, might insist that though such phenomena are puzzling and perhaps currently difficult to explain in physical terms, they are nonetheless ultimately physical in nature; for example, having to do with very unusual transfers of energy in the physical world. The dualist advantage is perhaps not as obvious as one might think, and we need not jump to supernatural conclusions so quickly.