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Re: Time is of the Mind.

http://sivagopalojha.gaia.com — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:56:30 GMT

I am tempted to agree to the view that time is more related to mind than anything else. Of course there is a subtle corelation between mind and matter. These are very complex phenomena. But coming back to our normal experiences, I find that time is all pervasive. It has the power to create great upheavals in civilization.

Who could imagine a couple of decades earlier that technology would come to occupy the centrestage of all human activities? Did time know this? Did it know that along its route lie the pitfalls and fissures that stare us at our face now? Is time immune to everything around it or it is quite conscious of everything? Does it keep quiet on purpose?

Re: Time is of the Mind.

http://sivagopalojha.gaia.com — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:49:54 GMT

I have gathered the following from "Time Wikipedia". It may be relevant in the context of our discussions.

"Two distinct views exist on the meaning of time. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. This is the realist view to which Isaac Newton subscribed, in which time itself is something that can be measured.
"A contrasting view is that time is part of the fundamental intellectual (together with space and number) within which we sequence events, quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them, and compare motions of objects. In this view time does not refer to any kind of entity that "flows", that objects move through, or that is a "container'" for events. This view is in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, in which time, rather than being an objective thing to be measured, is part of the mental measuring system."

Time is of the Mind.

http://prophessional.gaia.com — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:57:02 GMT

The most important thing I've realized about time is that it is not of the clock.
Where the body is the sense faculty of space, the mind is the sense faculty of time.
So whoever owns your time owns your mind. Ergo:
One clock stopped and knew the meaning of time…

Just as Terrence McKenna, I don't believe that time is unvarying. I didn't intend to open this up on a general frontal attack of the epistemic methods of modern science, but in fact the idea that time is invariant is entirely contradicted by our own experience and is merely an assumption science makes in order to do its business.

There is not an 'arrow of time', time is radial and fractal.

A wizard is never too late, he's always right on time.
I'am and possibly you will become, an earth wizard.

Stay tuned, I'm looking forward to posting in this pod.