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TA61 (Andemicael)

Commentary 14 (to C13, Patlavskiy)

TEMPORAL PASSAGE
by Adrian van der Meijden
30 July 2004, posted 4 September 2004

I'm sorry to say that this provides a perhaps logical means to map the gap but it does not provide a real world solution, nor one in line with HM's non-MIR or ASIF MIR approach.

TIME like many other scientific keyterms is up for grabs as standard definitions no longer suit newer findings, especially the quantum sea. Time experienced is constructed by our growth and changes. I can simultaneously recall the kid I was and imaginarily project the old man I'll be, none of which shows on my body, necessarily. Scientific time is clock time and well organised to disallow only the exact here and now of observation and instrumentation by way of artificial linear clock time. Solar system time would get a demerit for being very sloppy and erratic, worse than medieval clocks, apart from being cyclic repetition time and not linear or well quantifiable. Crisis time can be collapsed only or a long timeless stretch as in seeing a car come your way and no way to get away. I can list over a dozen types of literary and psychological time, not to ignore OZ aboriginal dream time and the time before time when god created the Universe or the now defunct Big Bang, or again the Buddhic breath of Brahm. Science relies on Platonic eternal inscribed ideas and does not really fit into any kind of real, experienced world. It cannot accomodate change and parks in an inaccessible 4th dimension. Up to Einstein time was simply ignored, except by way of a quantity, and since Einstein no workable solution has shown up, although most people take a pragmatic attitude.

Going subjective or inner the present changes into memories, so we are told and the future does not exist, since potential is taboo and ignored, all different mental functions. Language, by way of verbs has at least two different modes, one of the normal verbs and another projective, which includes gerunds like Pooh Bear's habit time, If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake, etc. Then there's serial, cyclic, proposal, prophetic, planning, anticipated and half a dozen other kinds of time, none of which comply with linear time.

Let me not go into newly hatched ideas about time by alternative science.

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Adrian van der Meijden