Eric on Nostr: In line with my questions around #time, how time actually works, and how we probably ...
In line with my questions around #time, how time actually works, and how we probably have it mostly wrong...
I can say that the "present" doesn't exist, because by the time I have sensed it, it is already in the passed. The future doesn't exist, because it hasn't happened yet. And the past doesn't exist, because it is only my memory of sensation, and memories can easily be manipulated, faked, etc.
So how we experiemce time really boils down to our memory. Of course we can write things down, hoping that thw words or pictures will give us clues to how we experienced things at a time in the past.
#Memory is an interesting thing, especially when considering how much memory is affected by emotion. Our sensations (how we perceive the information we receieve from our sense organs) are also colored my our emotions. And since by the time we have sensed something, if is already in the past, and therefore a memory, emotion and memory are closely linked.
So what is #history? Observations about memories, on some meta-scale. Even a first-person account of an event is just a recounting of emotion/memory.
And these are so easy to influence, repress, change, fake, insert, that I think in many ways, we create our own history. Maybe not as an individual, but as a collective.
When people say that history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes - at first I tend to cringe a bit, and perhaps this is why; it seems trite and self-serving. Perhaps because in creating our own history, what we choose to remember, and how we choose to remember it, we are creating those rhymes. Rhymes are familiar; they are patterns we can understand. And so we create these patterns, to explain our current emotional state.
Just some #philosophy.
I can say that the "present" doesn't exist, because by the time I have sensed it, it is already in the passed. The future doesn't exist, because it hasn't happened yet. And the past doesn't exist, because it is only my memory of sensation, and memories can easily be manipulated, faked, etc.
So how we experiemce time really boils down to our memory. Of course we can write things down, hoping that thw words or pictures will give us clues to how we experienced things at a time in the past.
#Memory is an interesting thing, especially when considering how much memory is affected by emotion. Our sensations (how we perceive the information we receieve from our sense organs) are also colored my our emotions. And since by the time we have sensed something, if is already in the past, and therefore a memory, emotion and memory are closely linked.
So what is #history? Observations about memories, on some meta-scale. Even a first-person account of an event is just a recounting of emotion/memory.
And these are so easy to influence, repress, change, fake, insert, that I think in many ways, we create our own history. Maybe not as an individual, but as a collective.
When people say that history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes - at first I tend to cringe a bit, and perhaps this is why; it seems trite and self-serving. Perhaps because in creating our own history, what we choose to remember, and how we choose to remember it, we are creating those rhymes. Rhymes are familiar; they are patterns we can understand. And so we create these patterns, to explain our current emotional state.
Just some #philosophy.