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Time without direction (interview with Susan Scheider) - C C - Aug 29, 2026
CLOSER TO TRUTH (guest Susan Schneider)
https://youtu.be/eo9vAOh1MYw
VIDEO INTRO: Susan, you have been investigating philosophy of mind and have moved towards a kind of pansychism. You call yourself a panpsychist, but your panpsychism is quite different than than others. With particularly your use of what you and Mark Bailey have called proto-time, a different dimension of time that maybe sits below spacetime as we know it. And you call this new kind of consciousness, which is this proto-time relationship, a superpsychism. So give me a sense of what s superpsychism is, what motivates it, and why you're offering this radically new understanding of both quantum mechanics and consciousness in in one fell swoop...
Could time and consciousness share a foundation? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo9vAOh1MYw
RE: Time without direction (interview with Susan Scheider) - Magical Realist - Sep 1, 2026
The problem with an ultimately non-directional Time imo comes down to reducing futurity and pastness and indeed possibility itself to illusions of our material existence. For what sense is there in saying time is an eternalist space-like continuum without some need for a vectorial relationship between events--of one event coming before another and one event coming after another? The whole of reality becomes sapped of its dynamic interrelatedness and interactivity.
We need Time to be fundamentally and irreducibly directional and transitional else change becomes an illusion and we become trapped in an abstract mathematical wonderland of timeless geometrical relationships. The whole nature of reality is this continuous unfolding of each event from others into others. And is my suspicion that this is also the intuitive essence of consciousness itself. Abstract logic and mathematics is an attempt to simulate the self-evident and necessary continuity of this deeply-felt phenomenal movement of our own subjective experience. The intellect strives to build its static maps and models of reality by standing outside of it as if it were some absolutely passive knowing of it. But the only real way to know reality is thru our real-life involvement with it. It is an experiential epistemology not a rationalist one. More like art and spirituality than like science and theorism. The vitality of the creative and poetic not the deadness of the analytical and prosaic.
"Intelligence starts ordinarily from the immobile, and reconstructs movement as best it can with immobilities in juxtaposition... For intuition the essential is change: as for the thing, as intelligence understands it, it is a cutting which has been made out of the becoming and set up by our mind as a substitute for the whole."— Bergson, The Creative Mind
“Long before being artists, we are artisans; and all fabrication, however rudimentary, lives on likeness and repetition, like the natural geometry which serves as its fulcrum. Fabrication works on models which it sets out to reproduce; and even when it invents, it proceeds, or imagines itself to proceed, by a new arrangement of elements already known. Its principle is that “we must have like to produce like.” In short, the strict application of the principle of finality, like that of the principle of mechanical causality, leads to the conclusion that “all is given.” Both principles say the same thing in their respective languages, because they respond to the same need.”― Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution
"Analysis is well as death is well."--George Macdonald