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Heh. Yeah...
Was still pondering when I woke up this morning, and I'm bummed to discover that a lot of what I wrote yesterday was horse hockey. Three AM brane was so impressed by its own "deep thoughts" that it didn't notice how much of the forest was missing in favor of this one reaaaaally intersting tree. Like Curt1s' point about the quantized nature of perception, for one thing, but also the much more basic errors of assumption I was making about the relationship of human consciousness to time/the present. All that stuff about the "vanishingly fine" nature of the present only makes sense if one is perceiving time from outside its flow, in a godlike (Merlin-like) fashion. If one is IN time, is moving forward through time with the present (as we seem to be), then the present is not impossibly small, but rather infinitely large and ever-changing - maybe both infinitesimal and infinite, but certainly the latter.
Still stand by the basic/trivial observation that I was getting all jazzed about last night: while we may always be 100% in the present, our awareness lags behind, is perpetually catching up with the present, examining the fading bloom of recently expired moments and from them constructing a sense of now-ness that remains stranded (though just barely) in the past. Plus still excited about the "Walking and Falling" analogy, where these fading acoleuthic echoes are all we have to hold onto, a rope dangled from the present (existence) into the past (annihilation). We're sort of trapped between the two states, but pulled forward by the memory/perception of what recently was.
― from alcoholism to fleshly concerns (contenderizer), Saturday, 14 November 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link