Physical space is the delusion of the state of being anywhere at once only without anything being there at all. Physical time is the delusion of the state of passing from past present and future without anything being in that state at all. Matter is the delusion of the state of being solid and having shape and being extended and having mass without there being anything material at all. Energy is the delusion of the state of pure activity without anything acting or being acted on at all. And light is the delusion of the state of visibility without anything being seen or seen by anyone at all.
The truth of perception is that it enables us to successfully navigate the world and detect prey and predators and potential mates, not that it accurately represents reality. Just as it does with all different moving species. More like a radar screen than a TV screen.
The secret to being persuasive is not being able to argue well. It's the knack for finding just the right metaphors to make your point relatable and exciting. You don't have to make people believe. You have only to make them WANT to believe. They must feel like they made up their own minds about it.
I feel like selfness is grounded in our invariantly being in the state of here and now. The present in time and the present in space. One absolute presence. The fixed center point in an infinite circumference. Not a thing nor anything objective but the felt and observed self-presencing of being itself.
A clock can tell time because it agrees with all other clocks. If it is off by the slightest degree, it is no longer telling time. If all the clocks are also off by the same degree, then it resumes telling time again. If half the clocks are off by the same degree from half of all other clocks then time is undecideable. If a clock and all the other clocks stopped at the same second, they would still be telling time. Only it will just be the time when all the clocks stopped.
Abstractions again. Maybe the only thing that is ever quantifiable--ever measurable--are magnitudes, all magnitudes being abstractions. Which means all this hoopla about whatever is physically real is what is measurable is BS. It was only ever measuring speed, size, duration, volume, charge, distance, density, frequency, rate, weight, force, power, probabilities, energy, mass, symmetry, pattern, information, bits, temperature, structures, units, wholes, constants, variables, values, lines, points, planes, shapes, particles, fields, waveforms, dimensions, algorithms, vectors, states, superpositions, inertial frames, branes. Not physical things themselves. Just magnitudes, quantities, abstractions. Mere tools seemingly enabling the consistent but entirely learned epiphany of cognition.
And so then all this ability of mathematics to apparently precisely define and predict and prove what is real is really just the ability of more abstractions, numbers again being nothing more than quantities, measuring quantities. What about all those laws of physics? Mere abstractions again. Abstractions suspended as they are in some reified timeless spaceless dimension not real in itself but only referentially and semantically real. Like language is, which sits over everything we perceive and experience in the real world like a vast superimposed overlay or schematic, mere predications and definitions existing as if inhering inside physical reality itself.
Being metaphysical subjects now, more basic than just physical bodies or ideational minds, we are opened up now to more primordial ontic states. States like undecidability, noumenality, transcendence, Zen self-awareness, possibilization, necessitation, nihilism, cosmicity, synchronicity, otherness, self-enactment, futural projection, truth-expressing, solipsism, presencing, semanticizing, gnosis, numinosity, and instantiation.
The subject of knowing knows itself as knowing not as a thing that is known.
Even if you wait forever, the present will never ever "have happened." Meaning it is never objectively real. But neither is a private subjective state. No more than the one lighted window thru which the frames of a movie's film speed thru. It is the essential phenomenal condition for anything becoming real at all. It is more than real. It is inevitable.
Give up trying to fit in. No one understands you because no one was ready for you. They think you shouldn't be here at all. They have no idea that you are the first of your kind.
The ontological grounding of selfness--that we are constantly present in the here and we are constantly present in the now. A two-fold state of the Subject on which all sense of being a self that stays the same is founded. We are thus not selves as some objective thing like a self or a person or even a body. No not even because of our memories. We are who we are because of our invariance as our continual and a priori ontological presence.
What difference between being physical matter and nothing at all, if there is no subjective being of those states? What difference between life and death? For the physicalist there is no distinction between a rock existing and it not existing, both enveloped in an absolute and infinite unconsciousness.
We are not limited to sensory perception in knowing about our physical environment. There comes about even as we are busy focusing on this and that thing an abiding holistic awareness of our being 3D moving bodies situated in an immersive 3D space. We have 2 special interoceptive senses for this---kinaesthesia and proprioception. One is the conscious sense of moving and being moved as bodies. And the other the unconscious sense of positionality and orientation in 3D space. Space thus makes us intuitively aware of itself by being in it and navigating thru it even as we perceive objects around us externalized representations of this ongoing self-evidenced intuition of spatial embodiment.
Space and time not as two separate mutually-exclusive continuums but as two subjective states phenomenally intertangled with each other.. Space not as a static state of discrete objects and events but as a sort of 3D movie of everything playing out, movement and change and causation and conflict all enabled by its seamless fusion with time. And Time, not as this 1D unidirectional vector moving thru some sort of timeless space, but the omnipresent appearing and disappearing and reappearing of everything. Rocks, trees, buildings, people, also running like a 3D movie, playing even when they appear to be solid and unchanging. Space is the holographic movie itself. Time as the ongoing projection of the holographic movie. A nice parallel to Bohm's explicate order and implicate order.
Oct 27, 2026 11:47 PM
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