It doesn’t seem that too many people are willing to address what is an obvious and overwhelming fact of physical existence; That we are riding a wave which is cresting and we need to ask what follows. Having realized this was going to happen since my teens, in the 70’s, I’ve given it a bit of thought and tried starting various conversations on the different aspects, but it runs up against the Catch 22 of my objectivity limits my connectivity. I recently posted an essay that tries to tie the various strands into a concise frame;
Short form is that our linear, narrative, goal oriented, ideals based culture exists in a more binary, cyclical, reciprocal, feedback driven reality, that while it might be sensed, is not fully thought out.
For instance, as these mobile, intentional organisms, with a narrative based culture and civilization, we experience time as the point of the present, moving past to future, but the reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Which makes time an effect of action, similar to temperature, pressure, color, etc. Think frequencies and amplitudes.
Even Physics assumes the narrative progression as fundamental and codifies time as measures of duration, yet duration is this physical, dynamic present, as events coalesce and dissolve, future to past. There is no physical dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform it, aka, causality and conservation of energy.
Assuming you see the logic of this, you can just imagine how difficult it is to try having a conversation about it, given that math is the high religion of modern civilization. Though epicycles were actually brilliant math, but the map is not the territory, so we have been here before.
Hopefully you have time for the essay. It is a useful addition to the necessary conversation.
