Giulio,

I haven’t been reading entire books very much, especially since the internet came along. I live a pretty much outside life, mostly race horses and farming, so reading time has always been limited.

Besides which, the older I get, close to 60 now, the more my brain acts like an old computer and spirals down rabbits holes of speculation on the merest bits of input.

Patterns are easier to store than details.

Though consider what it means if there is only a physical present and time is emergent from it. We wouldn’t be able to lay everything out in neat chronological order, but have to deal with the infinite feedback loops whirling through everything. Reality would be far more complex and difficult to understand.

I would argue that’s the way it is. Though getting anyone else to think through the consequences is difficult. It invariably means questioning their models, since it brings to question the very basis of thought, the sequence of perception and judgement that we, as mobile organisms, evolved to navigate our environment. I find children and young adults are more willing to give it some consideration, as their minds haven’t been entirely filled with a narrative based education.

They, like the animals I’ve spent my life raising, are more receptive and perceptive of the physical present and sensing the energies flowing through, as well as the shifting patterns. It gives them some validation of their senses, over the cultural imperative to limit validation to established standards.

We can’t see through the walls of our boxes, if they are our beliefs.