A Blog About Modern Day Philosophy
Time and space are two terms often grouped together and they are used to define the universe in which we live as well as the way in which we experience life.
Space is a relatively easy concept to understand as it is essentially everything we see around us – space is used to describe the physical world in which we life – in the broadest sense possible. Everything we know and understand about the physical world revolves around space and we can experience this space with the senses we have at our disposal – sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste.
Time is used to describe how we experience this world in an ongoing basis – time is made up of the now – what we are experiencing of the world at any given point in time, the past – what we remember experiencing in a previous now, and the future – what we imagine that our future self might experience.
It is very hard to think about time and space objectively – we think that we understand these concepts because we have built so many words around them and because they underpin the very life that we live. However, you can try to think objectively about time and space by completely forgetting everything that you know about both concepts – because those things we know about time and space are only what we have ourselves made up, in our language and they are not fundamental principals of time and space.
If you perceive the world to be a certain way, can anyone disprove it? It’s easy to say that you believe someone else’ perception of the world, because they have evidence to support that view, and on paper it may look as if it is a certain reality. But the truth is that it is…
What is the mind? We think of it as the thoughts that we have inside our head. In physical terms this means that the mind is in our brain – its the stuff that our brain is processing internally. However, that is just the best explanation we can come up with based on what we…
All of us see the world in a completely different way. One persons experience of the world, how it works, what it means and so on, can be completely different from another persons view. This is true even with people who grow up in exactly the same neighborhood and the same community. Does this mean…
I was thinking today about how the look of something often defines what that we think and feel about it. Taking a very simple example – if we see someone who is covered in tattoos we might think they are scary. Or if we see a fish with lots of spikes, fins and bright colours…
I posted the other day about how our subconscious might be what our soul is and our conscious mind might be the part of our soul that we can fit into the constraints of our body, and our thinking brain. However, when I thought about this some more, I think it could be the other…
I have discussed the physical world and the mind before now. Sometimes I think that they are two separate things – we have the physical world around us, then we have the conscious world – the one we think about in our heads. But, what if the two are linked, or if they are one…
When we think about who we are, we tend to think that we stop at the outer perimeter of our bodies – so for example, I am a person, I have a body, arms, legs and so on, and thats it. Everything outside of that is something else, someone else or somewhere else. But that…
We tend to think, or assume, that our soul, or our mind – the thing that we think with, is inside of our head. Just because our brain is doing the thinking, and our brain is inside of our head. But whether or not this is true really depends on what the mind is, what…
What is time? It’s just a thing we have made up to account for the world we live in, and to describe what we experience. But what is actually happening? We see, here, think things constantly and we can remember what we have experienced and imagine what we will experience. So in a way, time…