I have been obsessed lately with the hypothesis that consciousness is the luminiferous ether of time.
As with the spatial version, it is an awkward, just-so theory. To eliminate it, we need a weird new assumption similar to ‘speed of light is constant for all observers’
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So… consciousness is that which makes space appear to be sequential?
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I don’t know. Ideas not that together yet. Reading stuff about Bergson and others along these lines.
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How about, time is the infinite self-reflection of consciousness regarding itself, like mirrors facing each other
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Weird new theory: the root of spatiality is an effect of a real relation between an attribute of a given thing and some other thing; the root of temporality is any growth of the form "relation x, once formed, now comes to found a new relation y," causing succession/progression.
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Worse than that, it's not even a coherent concept. Watch Marvin Minsky calling it a "suitcase word" in one of the very few useful comments on the topic I've encountered: youtube.com/watch?v=6r70jz
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