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On Time Perception

It is not the fact that the “conception” of time as cyclical is a very ancient one, if not the most accepted one among ancient cultures (not that they had an impositive body of “world” academics drawing them accepted theories); neither the fact that, in a kind of “post-modernist” (no limits) vision of reality, Cyclical time is “one more” concept / conception / theory, freely participating among others in the realm of theories. But it is about the reality (realitas) that despite any prevailing “concept” or conception of time, this actually happens and it is lived, at the most fundamental, vital and thus universal level, in the same way since ……………………………………..

At it most fundamental, vital and thus universal level. For indeed, the most fundamental thing in any organism contains elements of the previous and biggest form, from which it derives and comes; and upon which it depends. The most universal is the more general and upon which the particular elements depend.

Linear time is obviously perceivable, most of all by The View. Being mostly guided by the view and the obvious, namely, forming an existential cosmic vision of the “world”, life and All based on such perception, may indeed accentuate a linear view of time. Thus, logic and the apparatus of knowledge (interpretations too) about everything adopts a linear vision; and therefore feelings and the way of experiencing existence and the world adapt to such perception. The constructs and constructions (societies, cities, etc.), as product of such a vision and state of being, will bare and sustain such direction, and by nature will develop a protective mechanism ergo self-preservation mechanism: repelling and attacking any element which threatens (contradictions are threats) to destroy the core elements of the entire organism / apparatus, etc.

Any, any, any creation develops similar fundamental mechanism because the previous, and the more general, formation / creation / conception from which it derives and upon which it depends, has it at its core (unless it is a product of a different formation). Regardless of any form it is able to prevail. The fact that something exists and has prevailed, is not a criterion of superiority or higher efficiency. Because the precedent is not always a sign of less efficiency or obsolescence; many times it is the subsistence and the life-line of the recent formation (as economy on this planet cannot exist without the existence of humans).

Linear conception of time is one element; a short section of the cyclical nature of time; of things. Something belonging to and inserted in; not above, neither next to, nor under.

Cyclical time Something which reaches, contains and grasps the more fundamental, and therefore, more universal things (realities). Thus, the capacity to perceive and conceive more complex realities in which humans are inscribed and to which they subscribed. The ability to see and envision further in time: past, and by condition, ahead. By implication then, preserving humans. For then, their constructs and constructions would align not with an older, but a more general and more universal order of things in which humans are inscribed and exist.

28/07/2025

From some traveling writings in the autumn 2005; in Sissach, Basel-Land, Switzerland. (same day, same moment; from poetry to philosophy)

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