The Phenomenology of Time

Clocks don’t tell the time, they simply mark specific points of order. The planets rotate, summer loses her coat, winter arrives like clockwork, and the swallow relocates itself to paradise, but the future as we experience it, (by that I mean our future in respect to “time”) is not something that is actually moving forward. That’s because time doesn’t exist at all. Basically time is not a factor of existence in respect to it being something that has any real substance. It is not a part of the thing in itself. Time is merely a second order illusion created around the fixed foundation of existence and the constant modification of its parts.

This is my bone of contention and because my claim is structured around an axiomatic construct that runs along the a priori structures of thought, the foundation that supports my claim cannot be deconstructed. So let intuition be your guide and not the words I use.

The future is not something which “exists” now as zero and then comes into existence a moment later as substance and surprise’s us. The fact is the future cannot exist tomorrow without today’s parts, so things, apart from temporary perceptions just are. The “future” is merely an idealized construct, created in a reflective state of mind, which is structured around the various concepts of thought and all the known variables simultaneously moving.

To think is to be in a conceptual state. I intuit the world along the various categories and their structures, therefore I am. The world that we experience, or rather intuit everyday, is effectively a world in a constant transcendental state of flux, constantly modifying and re-modifying itself by degree within and around a fixed foundation of order. For all intents and purposes I shall call this fixed order X. It’s on the basis of X that I intend to establish that there is no such thing as time and that the past is based around the illusion that the next moment is something new, when in facts it’s just Y, a temporary form of X, modifying by degree around X and zero.

All of life’s vagaries are of one melting pot and since each one is contingent on a successive movement as well as a part, their order can be conceived of in our psyches.

The key to understanding time lays in the way our mind structures itself around this subsistent reality that we all share and experience. Incidentally, I believe our own internal structures to be identical to the internal structures of nature, given that we are constituted by these structures, and so this is why we can intuit a priori, the various trails of life back down along the successive footsteps of order.

To know our true place in this universe, the first order of the day must be in discerning how our minds are structured a priori to look at the world of experience. Remember, man is only a second condition of a first order. We are Y. All temporary forms are Y. Y is constituted by X, so Y is of X. Y is what X dose. The fact is that time as we understand and perceive it, only has relevance in temporary frames, meaning that time it-self, by definition, is not something that exists outside a vacuum.

Given that the first order of existence, X, is a constant, time by definition dose not exist at all. It can’t. We simply cannot measure time against a constant. Time is not something that can be picked up and put in a bottle. It’s a non-entity, just like death is a non-entity.

Moreover, both of these concepts are predicated on “zero” in that without zero, they cannot be measured.

People tend to think of the whole, or X, in terms of infinity plus one, but this is an incorrect way of looking at things. X can be either measured as one whole, or aggregated. Plus one would mean that there were two at the very least, but based on our a priori understanding of numbers, this is not the case at all.

To flip the paradigm one has only to “add” zero to the frame. Zero creates a vacuum and this allows us to aggregate one from the whole, or two, three, four, five, add infinitum, but always, and only within the boundaries of a vacuum. Without a vacuum, one more, plus one more, plus one more, cannot be measured, so the correct measurement again, is one. One is the only constant, therefore X is.

We cannot conceive of X as not being there at all. This is how the parts conclude in axiomatic frameworks. When the world of experience, which is constructed around temporary frameworks, is measured, it’s always measured against its parts, which are an aggregate of the whole. Nothing can be measured without its parts. Incidentally, at a sub-atomic level the mind breaks down simply because we lose all the points of geometry, and so the map becomes whole again.

Our minds can only deduce what is, or what might be, from the page that’s laid out in front on them. Effectively we can only be aware of what is, how it has come to pass and how things based around given fixtures, might transpire around it. In respect to real existence, we are not the action we are an after effect of it, so we can only be cognizant of what already is. All outcomes are established through induction, and concluded around the given categories of reality and their parts.

Given that our a priori state is a reflective one, the ego cannot technically look forward. We are always after the first moment, therefore we reflect. X is what X is. X has real existence. The future is borne on X, not on Y. This is why we are naturally in a reflective state. All epistemic knowledge is based around what X is and what X dose. All knowledge of Y is contingent on X. Y is a succession of the last step so we reflect. The future is from the first step to the last, not from the last step to nowhere.

We are all subjected to the same objective. How we are ontologically constituted is how we are. Again, Y is what X dose. Everything that we experience in this reality subsists as a temporary form of one sort or another. Y is contingent on X so Y subsists. Water, fruit, fish, iron, stars, man, and so on, they all subsist as temporary forms. Like I said, we are not the first cause. We are a second order extension of its mechanics, thus we subsist. Only the thing in itself, X, or what Kant called the noumenon, has any real existence.

All subsistent forms "exist’ as temporary structures. Y is obviously fueled and made from whatever X is, so Y’s substance exists. We are a kind of secondary existence, if you like. We are a form that has grown from a pool of possibilities we can’t as yet fathom. All structure as we understand and perceive it, relies on a there being a fixed foundation to support it. For Y to subsist it needs a foundation, and since we are clearly not the first cause, we are relying on a constant of sorts. As long as we operate around the axioms of intuition, and we don’t walk blindly off track into the illusory fields of existentialism, then X for all intents and purposes, just is. Y is governed by a constant.

Given that the world of experience is predicated upon a constant, time by definition doesn’t exist at all. If nothing can be added then nothing is moving forward, therefore what we experience and believe to be changing is just the perception of temporary forms moving against a fixed background by degree. Infinity and zero are idol cogs in respect to time actually being something that exists, in that these concepts only have relevance in respect to temporary structures.

Take for example a car driving along a straight road. If we time the car from the moment it leaves position A and arrives at position B one hour later, has the car driven one hour into the future or has it driven one hour back into the past? Both perspectives are valid if we measure time as something, which is moving forward. But this is only a vacuum measurement based around a temporary structure. However, the car itself, the parts that is that make up the car, haven’t gone into the future or back into the past. Its substance has simply remained in the moment. X remains constant. All that has changed is the relative positions of Y in the ultimate moment.

All the elements exist at all times and are being used at all times, albeit in different forms. Tomorrows house, or tomorrow’s world, is nothing more than a re-modification of today’s parts, meaning that the parts that make up the so-called future are always in the present moment. Tomorrows tree is in today’s seed. Tomorrows seed is today’s apple bud transpiring. The chicken and the egg arrived together.

Anyhow, just to reiterate. Given that the so-called “future” is simply an outcome of the moment that has gone before it, and that each moment is contingent of its parts and their successive movements around a constant order, it stands to reason that the future is only a re-modification of the present parts. Thus if the parts are always present, the future is not somewhere we can go. X is a constant Y has to sit with. Y can only come across what X already is in the ultimate fixed moment. Time my friends is clearly an illusion. I am not ahead of my time I am simply with the moment. In the nicest way possible, you catch up.