How do you think about your own temporality? Do you imagine yourself as a blip inexorably moving along a timeling? Or perhaps as a stationary observer watching the world temporally flow by like a river? (how very heraclitian of you!) Or perhaps time is more of a ecstasies-smear like Heidegger thinks? (i.e. every experience is not a discreet piece of a timeline but rather always influenced by the past, present and the future making it nearly impossible to distinguish any moment as simply past present or future...)
I definitely see aspects of the last two in my perception of time. I've really seemed to move away from idea #1. This is, however, how our society works so you can't totally abandon it and expect to live well and interact with others.
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I've heard of the first two, but not Heidigger's one. Trying to understand how time operates will take some "time" for me to do. Temporality... how shall I systemize it? I've only adopted the one's that have been suggested before me. I'll have to think about this one and get back to you. Great question though.
Oi, achei teu blog pelo google tá bem interessante gostei desse post. Quando der dá uma passada pelo meu blog, é sobre camisetas personalizadas, mostra passo a passo como criar uma camiseta personalizada bem maneira. Até mais.
Oi, achei teu blog pelo google tá bem interessante gostei desse post. Quando der dá uma passada pelo meu blog, é sobre camisetas personalizadas, mostra passo a passo como criar uma camiseta personalizada bem maneira. Até mais.
Blog advertisers that approach you in portuguese? Now that's not something I would expect. Usually I'd delete their comments, but that's kind of weird. I wonder if they just babelfished them or he just translated our posts. Hmm.
So... what exactly IS a "timeling"? Can I buy one? Is it related to "bling-bling"? Or is it like a mini time-creature?
Systemizing time seems particularly challenging since we can't comprehend it from outside itself. I like the ecstasy-smear idea, though. Can you explain it more?
I suppose I am a little in the timeline assortment because I have been conditioned that way by watching those go back to the past films and the fastforwarding and rewriting a movie. Gosh dang it, where's the free will in those movie characters? ARGH!!!
However, I do see something in a constant fluctuation of perspective and selfhood. Heck ya, abstract meaninglessness. I'll flesh that more out in another comment or scrap it all together.
And the importance of memory. If that did not exist, what would be past, present, future, for us?
Okay, so I'll flesh my idea out. I think of my temporality as a spinning racquetball, which contains external temporality and internal temporality. Externally, it spins like an earth, besides the wobbling part (let's not stretch the analogy too far here), meaning my temporality both external and internal is alive. The ball can move, suggesting the moving position of myself in space. However, inside the ball is my internal temporality. Inside I have several levels of chessboards, in some sort of matrix. These are layers of consciousness that I turn on and off, or move in and out of, because obviously each moment of time my temporal approach is not the same. As I use my will and as things are banged against the ball, different chess pieces are moved on these boards or whole boards are activated, deactivated. Some I may be aware or unaware of. When the ball stops spinning, my temporality stops.
I am a sphere spinning through space. But even stranger, my internal temporality can slow down and speed up the spin of the ball to effect my view of time.
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