You’re welcome. It’s a particular point of attention for me, because a lot of our conceptual fallacies grow out of it.
For one thing, it makes time more like temperature, pressure, color and sound, than space. Think frequencies and amplitudes. Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don’t call them the 5th and 6th dimensions of space, because they are only foundational to our emotions, bodily functions and environment, not the sequencing of thought.
It’s not like the future happens and then we see it, but that all that exists is the energy, much of it as light. So the light hitting our eyes is carrying information of some previous encounter it had, such as a surface, from which it reflected from an earlier source, etc. As Emerson said, “We are but thickened light.”
That Native Americans have similar concepts as East Asians suggests the conceptual foundations go extremely far back into our pre-history. Yet so much of what we are, socially, ideologically, emotionally, politically, culturally etc, is just so many lenses through which this element of consciousness shines, like light and trying to peel away some of those layers isn’t always appreciated. Yet as we are finding, nature will do it for us, eventually, so sometimes it helps to climb out of our models and maps, before they blow up in our faces.
The thing about thought is that it is like a cresting wave. It is at its most complete, distinct and clear as it’s fully formed, but it’s also the point it starts to recede. While emotions are like waves starting to build. We can sense the pressure/temperature starting to increase, but can’t form a clear sense of it, as it pushes our attention. Then as it settles into its form and becomes a thought, we get that flash of insight.
I think what physics doesn’t quite get, with a mathematical approach, is that is information, not energy. It’s like quanta are more like frequency and amplitude, than the actual energy driving the process. Though that’s a much longer discussion. Here is an essay I wrote on it about a year ago, that was rejected by the publication I submitted it to, so the policy apparently is to only show it to anyone following me. Admittedly I didn’t pull any punches, but I like to call it as I see it;
