The
intuition of the passage of time is linked to the action performed. Physiological
actions condition the pacing of the economical actions we perform in the world,
actions whose purpose is the homeostasis of the social and individual organism,
i.e., to maintain the physiological actions going on. Our sense of time is
constituted by the morphisms between our individual physiology (actually, the
common physiology we share with the others) and the physiology of the group,
which in turn is conditioned by the environment, and therefore, by the astrobiological
frame. This basic sense of time is modified by the narratives about time, by
the symbolic structures that we construct to evaluate our vital experience,
which include either consciously (Überlebenswelt) or unconsciously (Lebenswelt
and Unterlebenswelt) notions about time and its intuition. From the point of
view of continuous rationality, our formal scientific theories about time are
just n-aryzations of our basic emotions and therefore projections of our basic
intuitions and biological processes. Astronomical time is but an endomorphism
of biological time. This is observable in the traditional narratives of
immortality. The other worlds are but images of this one, realms where biological
time and economical actions mimic those of our ordinary life, family relations
and economic activities. In the cases where a more astronomical sense of time is
included, those Ba narratives in which the deceased subject is not a human or a
biological being anymore (began in Egypt by the Osiris Priests), the scenarios
become inevitably fuzzy. But something analogous happens with the scenarios of
cosmology of modern physics, when numbers enter the realm of the continuum of
the first second, and there is no more a subject (for those temporalities are
not biological) but a metaphysical narrative of a neverland.
Existence is Encounter. Meeting at the limen. In the limen, the masks disappear, that is, the basic intuitions of identities, such as the identity that I feel and think in relation to the tree that I see in front of me. The identity of the tree is a projection of mine: the unity of my process of perceiving the tree generates a mask in me, the ghost of a limited unity separated from everything else. The simplest form of intuitive understanding of masks and limen is given to us by numbers. Numbers intuitively express the liminal tension that is Existence. A little etymological note. Rythmos in Greek means flow. Arythmos (number) is what does not flow, what remains solidified. Numbers express the liminoid, and flow, rhythm, expresses the liminal. A rhythm becomes liminoid when we can trace patterns in it, that is, when we can construct masks of identities. Mathematics has spoken of flow using the Latin word “continuum”, the continuous. All modern science, since Leibni...
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