@HexHammer,
HexHammer;170474 wrote:Sounds very poetic, little philosophy, none scientific.
Well, Hex, for
me, philosophy is prior to natural science. And science is made out of exactly what I just described. Science is a body of concepts and equations that develops over time, within human history. Unless we had memory, we would have no science. And unless we had a desire for more knowledge, for example a vision of the unified theory, we would not
bother with science.
The future exists in the present as the fantasy of what could/should be. The scientist wants knowledge concerning the structure of nature, right? So he acts on the present, conducts experience, in order to generate this knowledge. Human time always was and always has been prior to physics time. Physics time exists as a piece of human time. Man is a time-binding species. We build on the accomplishments on the dead. And we can do so because of language, or concept. This is why Hegel said that concept is time. But that's an oversimplification.
Man is a system of concepts who is
there in the present, and this present is made of not only of concepts but also of sensation and emotion. Man is a creature who
desires. What does he desire? He doesn't desire what he already has, or what is already present. That would make no sense.
He desires what he imagines. The future and past exists in the spatial present as imagination/memory/concept. I think they are all the same sort of "material." How does your personal past exist for you?
Where is your past? It's made of concepts, I think. You carry it with you in your "head." We say head but when we humans do brain surgery we don't see concepts. We see tissue. So "head" is just a metaphor.