Monday, August 3, 2020

Dr. Stephen E. Robbins on time as "this hesitation" from Bergson

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"To be clear though it's not Time itself that is flowing. Time doesn't do that and neither does space.... what about point particles? Do they feel gravity? How do they feel that time gradient flow thingy if they don't have any size? Well because of calculus.... " mainstream science still promotes the idea of time being an artificial illusion of rate of change measured by symmetric mathematics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PfjsPdBzg
Right, I realize “Time [itself] does not flow” is a fairly common critique in philosophy, and taken to be a sophisticated position in the philosophy of time. The problem is that “time,” when taken in the context of Bergson’s thought, is Consciousness, is the creative transformation and creation of the universal field as space, is the movement from the intensive to the extensive, is Becoming, and more. Statements of Bergson such as “time is this hesitation or it is nothing,” index this complexity, i.e., the hesitation at each “moment” before the realization of some possibility from many possible – creative flow - the hesitation being the measure of its freedom. So, right, all this can certainly be taken as far from just “time itself” when “time” is construed very narrowly, say, in terms of clock measurements. When this is realized, “time does not flow” as a supposed philosophical insight is simply seen as the sterility of a good chunk of philosophical thought on the subject.
@Stephen E. Robbins fascinating about the hesitation - yes that is a "hard science" physics teacher channel - considered to be the utmost of practicality. Since I grew up immersed in music training, the idea of time not flowing is impossible to accept - a whole different worldview of reality. Also because of this wrong definition of time in science then we also have our current ecological crisis, something the scientists are always "behind the times" when considering. thanks again.

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