Note 71: On Time

Past, present, future is an illusion. There is only present, and the structures that relate them to each other.

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What is time?

One, it is a frame of experience, within which change is experienced.

There is no flow of time, just as there is no objective right.

Our determination of its flow as a forward movement from past to future is a result of our experience of change, and the causal characteristics associated with it, which enables us to attribute properties to the relations between different points in time.

However, this is not inherent to the frame of time itself. Time as a frame of experience does not determine the qualities of its contents, hence it is false to speak of past/present/future, for this is a function of process, which is change and causation; not time, which is structure.

Halloween

What is Halloween?

A microcosm of life: fun, scary, and ephemeral.

Note 70

Underlying property-derived interpretations, facts.

One, underlying all possible interpretations.

Two, underlying the relations between observer and observed that give rise to coherence of interpretive frameworks.

Facts cannot be given within frameworks. Or it would not be a fact, but an interpretation.

Note 69

Power is the ability to allocate the functions, and define the interactions, of various political mechanisms in society. The relation of various political mechanisms define the power complex of a society, which in turn determines the evolution of the dynamics of these political mechanisms, in relation to the interplay of its substantive contents, in relation to the themes, issues, agents, values, preferences, ideologies and technological contexts in that society.

Note 68

Love on the surface
Embracing a
Category I could not reach
As I stepped towards the
Precipice
And fell into a dream
Of a world occupied
With its own embrace
Upon itself enslaved
And upon itself made free
To fall into enslavement again
In search
Of the transcendence pie.

Note 67

What the consideration of mind leads to is not property materialism or dualism but multimodalism, the presence of intermediate epistemic frames between material and mind which are discontinuous with both.

Discontinuity exists because the properties cannot be broken down into constituents which link up with others. The frames do not match. What is required is a third frame which reconcieves of what matter and mind is, and yet encapsulates both aspects and properties of matter and mind to understand their interaction. That is, one has to speak outside of matter or of mind to reconcile them.

Note 66

Qualities govern interactions. Emergent properties create new kinds of interactions and hence new principles governing interactions. New systems are constituted by the interaction of the properties relating to the system, as well as those relating to their constituent systems, which govern their interaction.

Does this mean that properties are ontic units? And contingent?

Note 65

Nothingness is the unity in which everything is. It is the vessel.

So God is the paradox of everything out of nothing.

Work

Work is the way of linking production to consumption. This depends on technology, capacity, and preferences. These change through time, and so work also changes. Because of this, work will not be displaced by machines. Only some kinds of work will.

Note 64

The flaw of modern philosophy - existence vs non-existence.