I’m increasingly convinced the ancients did not think of, or experience, time the way we do, as a kind of one-way street spatial dimension. It was a flux with a material quality. Like a river flowing through you. Or like weather.
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Yeah I’ve read that, though clearly it made a much bigger impression on you. I thought it was a bit weak.
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I was always bowled over by the idea that our natural numberline is geometric not arithmetic. Not naturally understanding time is just an extension of that.pic.twitter.com/EKNMWygSEw
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There’s also the idea of Brouwer’s intuitionistic continuum, which is probably the weirdest idea in mathematics https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism/ …
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