Time Syntax | Time and Consciousness: Podcast Download

Curious about the “Time Syntax?” Want to know how human culture sensed and measured time differently?

Hello and welcome to the podcast download section and in this podcast I will offer slightly different perspective on our understanding of time and consciousness.

Syntax is thought of as the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language, but our concept of time is also an arrangement of cycles and phrases, and time and consciousness also has its own Syntax.

We measure time in cycles of the suns movements, hours, minutes, seconds and so on. Also time is distance and light speed. All the while assuming that it’s a fundamental construct of reality, a mathematical immutable law.

The experience of time is an essential component of human consciousness and can be understood as consciousness of temporal objects, an assumption of the temporal as being enduring.

Time and consciousness are interwoven on several levels. From the vantage point of ordinary life and common sense, consciousness plainly seems to exist in time. Our consciousness may be located within time, but there are also ways in which time might be regarded as manifesting temporality within consciousness.

Memories can be recreated and drawing into our present consciousness. And of course there are past- emotions, such as remorse or regret or shame and these the past memories can influence our present feelings, often in powerful ways.

While there is no future-directed counterpart of memory, we can anticipate future happenings and experience future directed emotions: fear, dread, hope and these too can exert a powerful influence on our present states of consciousness.

Think in terms of the rearview mirror of a car, the mirror seems to give the impression that you can see into the future because you assumed you were looking at another car gaining on you. It seems to gives us the impression that we are seeing into a future event, “The event being the car pasting you”.

Buy the reality is we are only ever aware of the past, never the present moment. Now imagine if we could become aware of the present and even what would happen if we became aware of the light particles ahead of us? Even only a micro second into the future?

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