By Burrows
Bargains with time and with tune, and the hyperlink among the 2. This research means that track is a modeling of ways we build time.
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It is important to remember that what eventuates, what might be thought of informally as the “real” future, is no part of the tripartite scheme, because too much of it is out of our control. Something similar can be said of what has actually happened, the “real” past; the “present of things past” is the product of individual and interindividual construction, invention even. Past and future provide coordinates for a kind of semi-stable location for the present. In the interests of stability, each present needs to be felt as the outcome of a particular past; it needs at the same time to be felt as the starting point of a more or less clearly defined future.
Yet the succession of nows doesn’t generally feel like a series of clicks: instead the clicks are assimilated to an overriding feel of going. There are bumpy patches certainly, but by and large consciousness has a flowing time and the warm body quality. Balancing a bicycle is mostly managed by a flow of small pre-conscious adjustments rather than a series of jerky motions. Now-actions can be of imperceptibly short duration, like the individual oscillations that are the material for our perception of a tone: the oscillations in air pressure set in motion by the cellist’s bow are fused into the unitary perception of a tone, and the succession of tones is composed into the unitary impression of a piece.
Fraser has set out in a number of his writings. In order of increasing inclusiveness and complexity the temporalities are as follows: – – – – – – Atemporality Prototemporality Eotemporality Biotemporality Nootemporality Sociotemporality Electro-magnetism is the only existent on the first level, that of “Atemporality”: here “everything happens at once” (as we should say, if we could inhabit this level). Elementary particles, which are the inhabitants of the level of “Prototemporality,” are “countable but not orderable”; time and space are not sufficiently distinguishable on this level for time, again as we know it, to be a consideration.