Post 1388, Day 72 of 2015
- 1,533 days since I started this blog -
- 1,533 days since I started this blog -
Thinking again about time perception, and cause and effect. Our perception of time is a subjective matter - there is only one time, it is 'right now', the present, but our attachment to sense perception means that we are unaware of the present until it is past, and we are in a different present.
Of course, it's a continuum, but it also means there is only that one time - only the present. It is only the present where a thing happens. We must, to a degree, become unaware of things happening to appreciate the present, ever. This is the paradox: We may also become 'present' by focusing our awareness on things happening as they do.
So: Only one time, now. But then, what about cause and effect? The relationship between cause and effect is one that requires they happen at different times. First this, then that. Both can't happen at the same 'now' instant.
So, they are an illusion. One that in some instances, can seem backwards, if our view of time is as subjective (and wrong) as I think. Most effects have not one, but a complex network of causes.
Like the roots of a tree. We see an effect, and look at the causes, all the tiny events that had to happen to create that effect, each with its own network of causes to create it.
It's as though, instead of sending down roots, a tree grows up from the roots, root cause, tree effect.
Mind blown.
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Food and Diet Section
Today's Weight: 208.6 lbs
Today's Weight: 208.6 lbs
Previous Weight (3/12): 207.4 lbs
Day Net Loss/Gain: + 1.2 lbs
Diet Comment
I ate badly yesterday. Funk'n'Waffles was next to a dinner gig I was playing, so I stopped in to say hello to friends. Since I wouldn't be eating until after my gig, I ordered a favorite as a snack. After the gig, and dinner, I went back and had a beer (while listening to a killer James Brown tribute band). Then, at home, late, the inevitable Quest bar. Sigh. Weight is up today, its highest this year. Diet Comment
A Quest bar.
Lunch
At Ling-Ling's Chinese Buffet and Grill:
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| Brussels sprouts, kimchee, and, from the "Mongolian Grill", my go-to dish: pork and chicken with cabbage, onions, mushrooms, green peppers and broccoli. Not shown: Dessert Quest bar. |
A Quest bar.
Pepperoni and eggs and cole slaw.
A Quest bar.
Coffee: 28 oz. Water: 114+ oz.
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I see "cause and effect" as the approximation that happens in the slower frequencies portion of our perceptual abilities which are temporally retarded, and limited to a dual experience of now, The sensory brain can never perceive the whole, thus never perceive now as it is happening. This is where understanding comes into play. The invisible, immeasurable other side exists simultaneously with the sensually perceived reality. One side can't see the other side , but it "knows" it is here. There is a continual exchange of energies in all scales, in all octaves, in all notes. Sound doesn't exist, but for the presence of silence. This, though we can't perceive it as so, we "know". We understand. We don't actually see the big picture (at least I don't). With understanding, attention, and compassion we "know" the bigger picture. Treeness caused the roots, trunk and branches and leaves.
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this is beyond me
ReplyDeletei'm just saying that everything is as it is necessary to be in form and function, to be as it is as part of the whole, or nothing would hold together, and thus not be. i'm not sure that this clears anything up.i really need to be face to face with a person to properly communicate. Written words really don't make it.
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Joan, nothing is beyond you, you just don't respond to metaphysical discussions. Andy, I think I understand what you wrote. I very much liked the part about 'treeness' because that showed you understood what I was talking about. Love you both.
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