consciousness
is in time and in space
consciousness in itself - reflecting on itself - is timeless and spaceless?
consciousness - the mind - locates itself in space and time - in reflecting outside itself
that is in identifying that it is in itself - but here most significantly - in the world -
this is an ontological primitive - and an epistemological unknown -
consciousness sees in (itself - the inside) and out - (the world - the outside)
so space and time are - on this view characteristics of the outside of consciousness
of the world -
consciousness is in
perhaps I have overstated the case here
in relation to space
time I think is straightforward -
consciousness regards itself as timeless - in itself
but spaceless?
surely we only have a sense of consciousness
as being in
in - not just the world
but in a body - my body
this it would seem is no secondary reflection
this is primary
so space - is externality
is what consciousness is in
we don't have a sense of consciousness as spaceless
in the same way as we have a sense of consciousness as timeless
space is externality
what is time?
time as internality?
yes
primarily
the succession of conscious states
and also - an externality?
the world - the outside is a succession of states
so there is a correspondence
yes
and of space?
is space internal?
I don't think so
in the sense that
consciousness does not have - or see itself as having internal space
the space of consciousness is what it is in
unless we wish to speak in an idealist or religious manner
spiritual space
the space of the spirit
- an internal space
I don't think so
I come back to the intuition that space is what consciousness is in - therefore in
relation to consciousness - the outside
time as an internality
space the externality
inner space
the inside
the inside of the body - is in my view - consciousness
this is what the inside is -
an inside to the inside I don't get
so can we nevertheless speak of consciousness
as the inside space?
poetically yes
but ontologically I don't think it stacks up
OK
space as the external dimension
therefore consciousness in itself - if it makes any sense to speak of this - is spaceless
now time
the idea of the timeless
does the same apply?
consciousness in itself - timeless
OK we have a sense of this
but the reality of consciousness in the world
is that consciousness is in time
spacelessness and timelessness - abstractions
what follows from this for the question of the nature of space and time?
space is the externality
mind the internality
time as a characteristic of space - of the externality
time as a characteristic of consciousness
consciousness and the world
the inside and the outside
have time as a common attribute
do we still want to say that space is just an external dimension?
inner space is what?
mind
O.K.
outer space - no mind - what I've been calling the world
therefore space and time
characteristics of mind and matter
inner and outer seem to be the main categories here
inner / outer - space / time
space and time common characteristics
therefore essential characteristics
of reality
of the inner - of the outer
this is not to say much
I haven't got too far here
