Monday, October 31, 2011

LXXXIX - ontologies

my head is full from trying to understand time. it is a very interesting question. what is time? does it exist a priori, does it exist outside of the mind?

can God undo time?

we never think about it except when we do, but it seems extremely unsatisfactory that there are so many things in life which are difficult to fundamentally understand.

i am inclined to think that Newtonian time is a feature of human understanding. it co-exists relative to the material world and its alterings... but the mind needs time to think, right...

the mind is not then, strictly physical either... is it?

is existence definitional? if you knock on my closed door, am i everywhere in the room at once, or a mixture of it with an exact position? if i look at the past, could i consider a space-time object?

i don't think the past can exist/ if it exists only as memory.