- We tend to assume implicitly that
- The clock ticks, objective time is this B: Non-linear time
- Subjective time
- What each individual experiences
- Experiencing the same past over and over again.
- Discourses like “subjective time is not linear” are too abstract to convey.
- Think more concretely.
- For example, a Scrapbox page I wrote in the past surfaces for some reason, and I open it and read it.
- At this time, from the page side perspective, a continuation of the past “when I wrote it” “when I closed the page” time
- Note on change of perspective
- Here, the subject and the object, “I” and “the page I wrote,” are switched, and I am seen as the object from the viewpoint of the page as the subject.
- The time line is continuing from the page perspective, and I as the object am changing my internal state with a few new experiences.
- Note on change of perspective
- At this time, from the page side perspective, a continuation of the past “when I wrote it” “when I closed the page” time
- This page itself is it.
- I happened to look at “The Concept of Time in Gendlin’s Introduction to Philosophy” again on 2024-08-30.
- This was shared with blu3mo on 2023-10-12
- I myself was interested in Eugene Gendlin. as a philosopher who practiced verbalization, and when I was reading it, the subject of time happened to come up.
- I wasn’t really interested in time myself, but I thought blu3mo was interested in non-linear time - so I cut out the relevant part.
- This “I just happened to see it” is B1.
- At this time, I am a different person from the one who finished writing the last time and the one who read this time.
- So there is a difference there (B2)
- From these differences, new ones emerge (B3).
- dialectics like, but not in such a strong sense.
- Last time I only introduced the concept of time in the Introduction to Gendlinian Philosophy
- I didn’t have much thought about time myself, so I ended up halfway through.
- This is a situation where “there is a hole to be filled.
- Like holes in semiconductors - electrons and holes
- Moving on from this created state (B4)
I’m the one writing it out, doing half the thinking outside of my brain, so the thought process is half observable.
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For those who haven’t written it down, “I suddenly remembered something from the past,” etc. the intersection of past and present.
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