Anjali,
You’ve very welcome. I tend to be outside the establishment, having spent my life on various farms and avoided school as much as possible. I seem to find that the more educated people are, the less willing they are to consider looking at time as the events going future to past, since our educational institutions arose, like civilization, from narrative.
Our minds only perceive static forms, or it becomes a blurry whiteout. It’s the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems which process the energy driving us on. Not coincidently we identify our deeper senses, emotion and intuition, with the heart and gut.
Though if we think of it in terms of a wave, thought is the fully formed wave, cresting. So the reality we see is constantly fading into the past. While emotions and instinct are feeling the wave starting to build, or receding, so it’s not clear, but it does “move” us.
So consciousness is like a flame, constantly seeking fuel, ie. appetite and desire.
I came at physics trying to understand this mess known as society and here is an effort to tie various of these insights together;
As I see it, one of the many dichotomies is between specialized and general points of view. While our society has certainly benefited from much specialization, the polymaths get it rough. Those naturally inclined to see the broad picture would be the children fascinated by everything, then start to put it all together, but they are the ones diagnosed as attention deficient and medicated to keep their minds in the various educational boxes. Though I was from the age we self medicated and avoided school.
There is a reason why the people running armies are called generals and specialist is a rank just above private.
Cheers,
John
