So, I guess this would be the theoretical underpinning of what gets me out of bed in the morning, and will still be subject to serious revision as this is the first I have tried to put the whole thing into words.
Time is fictional construct of the conscious mind. It exists only in our perceptions of our moving environment, but even that is also suspect. Stasis is only a mirage, to prove this one only needs to increase or decrease their point of reference. The rock which has laid dormant for thousands of years is made up of atoms constantly moving, and is as well tied to the motions of the planet, the galaxy, and the universe. But, back to the original postulate. There is as much time in the second between this word and this one as there is in a millennium. They rely on a start and an end point, and uniform divisions made up of units derived from the perception of conscious minds. What I am trying to describe is the condition remaining when consciousness is stripped from the physical world, and thus we arrive at what I call the Infinite Present. The infinite present is ubiquitous throughout all of space. It is the constant motion resultant from the ever present force of gravity, which has no beginning and no end. Its amplitude is the result of collections of atoms, which will be further agglomerated or dispersed in the perpetual chaos of motion.
To digress into more human applications of these ideas, history is also a fictional construct, a side effect of conscious perception which prevents one from understanding that nothing has ceased to exist, its assemblage has merely metamorphosed into another assemblage that our consciousness tells us is different. I will try to explain it this way. Take for example a dinosaur bone you could find in the Smithsonian. It was the femur of a Tyrannosaurus, sure. But, it is also a collection of hydrocarbons which have changed their chemical composition to that of a rock. The only difference in this case is the perception of the object, which, if we as humans were not able to perceive anything, it would be nothing more than a group of atoms which are in constant motion and undergoing perpetual change.
To draw further conclusions from stripping ourselves of perception, and shift this discourse towards the realm of aesthetics, I will hereby declare that Post-Modernism has nothing from which to draw its theses as there is no history to reject, to experiment with; there is nothing to be a "Post" of outside the realm of individual perception. All of the infinite Universe, known, unknown, unknowable exists simultaneously, unceasingly fluctuating, and as such all "-isms" have merely been attempts to segment periods of time for the sake of classification. But where they have failed is in assuming they have broken from the past. Do they not exist side by side? Does St Peter's Cathedral only exist in 1626? No! It exists today, it exists now, and it only exists because we are able to perceive it. Without perception nothing would exist because it would be unknowable.
And lastly, to shift the final point to the matters of the spirit, I shall attempt to uncover the nature of existence in humanity. As I have stated prior, time is a construct arising from our conscious perception of motion. I have also tried to loosely describe the conditions of the physical environment, which would be atoms in constant flux. However, the interaction of the two creates something quite unique. As our consciousness is tied to the atoms and molecules which interact with our environments in order to allow us to continue to perceive our environment, and continue to interact with it, does our consciousness then cease to exist when our physical selves have been consumed into something else? Is it possible for one human to exist separated from the perception of every other human? When they have died, what then? Did they exist, but they were imperceptible and thus unknowable? In order to answer this question I will have to delve into the realm of Time which I have tried thus far to disprove:
We exist in perceived durations of time. For a short while, we are able to perceive ourselves, others, and our environment. We are conscious. However, there will be an end, and as such it is my belief that in order to ensure the continued existence of our spirit, we transcribe ourselves into more durable physical objects, we build tremendous Basilicas to be perceived long after our bodies have been reconstituted, so that we may exist in Time as we no longer exist in space. However, at some point amidst the chaos, and at some point in perceived Time, no human will be conscious, and barring the recognition by another conscious species, we will cease to exist.
This is why I rise in the mornings, to act.
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What I really like about this is your destruction of the need for classification since all concepts of objectivity are truly relative. I also love the T-Rex femur part because it is dead on. You always seem to have more of a focus on the aspect of time surrounding synthesis, and I a clarification of it meaning since I want others to understand it as we do, and not just shrug it off. Everything really is a matter of perception: good, evil, blue, red, left, right, hypochondria. Interesting post none the less.
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