Time is our greatest enemy,
Time is death,
Time is what we fight,
Time is where eternity disappears,
Time is where ideas get lost,
Time is the well of our origin,
Time is the spring of the unknown,
Time is why things have meaning,
Time is why life valuable,
Time is an idea,
Time is a concept,
Time is just a construct,
Time is a term useful for operational rationality.
Don’t we have presuppositions about time ? Does it exist ? Is it moving forward ? Is it composed out of past present and future ? Is it deterministic ? Is it the same time for everyone ? How much does the present hold the traces of the past and the clues for the future ? Can there be determinism and entropy ? How can we predict a final state of unpredictability ? Can we say that total unpredictability is predicted ?
These are all interesting questions, but they are mostly logical and conceptual. Every question exists only in language and has a certain degree of possible application to reality. The non materialistic, non scientific questions we can ask concern an ideal or aesthetic perspective on reality. Ideas and thoughts don’t leave a trace in physical reality, so how would we be able to reach those ? Why do we have to keep asking such difficult questions ?
I think time exists for us, the contemporary West, mainly in a paradigm of science and materialism, and im talking about the definition and therefore possible answers. There is quite a left over from the Enlightened period, which is still quite irrational, as much as rational can be (not joking), and the notion of determinism still exists, maybe as a symptom of panic and helplessness. The concept of Time is being used in the same way for too long and it concerns now the cooperation of people towards a shared goal through the use of the same language, but thats exactly where it becomes a limitation. Goals are often becoming too utilitarian, compared to how the definition of time is one dimensional (pun not intended). Opening the full spectrum of what could be time, as been done before by Bergson or Einstein, about notions such as duration and simultaneity, can open up new perspectives.
What we experience ‘now’ is just a speckle in the ocean of eternity. Singularity, the fact the every moment in present is unique, is the key for the love of fate, amor fati. Outside present experience exists only mystery, the spring of the unknown, an endless source of dark material, history. The past is also what we will meet in the future present.