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TA61 (Andemicael)

Commentary 9 (to Beamish, C7)

( TIME )
by Hugh Bone
7 February 2004, posted 14 February 2004

On reading your KJF message, I went to your CETA site and read several pages.

A few years ago, and I don't remember the circumstances, it occurred to me that time as an interval between events and space is an interval between objects.

Since then I have come to regard time as a subjective function of human perception, memory and imagination.

Time, as mental content, is fragile, ephemeral, exists in living human tissue, perhaps nowhere else.

A corollary, it seems, is that the time we know is always NOW. History does not exist, although previous nows are remembered, and artifacts: inscriptions on stone, words on paper and other relics, are common. Future nows do not exist, but are imagined, and communicated to others as artifacts of thought.

When I've posted the above to philosophers on the Internet there is generally no reply, although lately I received queries about my "philosophy" that justifies such concepts. My answer was that I don't have such a philosophy - I only report a perceived phenomenon.

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Hugh Bone