Einstein held that in the absence of subjective experience time is tenseless
this is to say?
no time
for an eternal now is not tenseless
now is tenseful
tenselessness is quite simply absence
eternity is absence
time therefore as fullness
or at least busy-ness -
seriously -
perspectives - subjective experience
is not outside of the world
it is a feature of the world
a kind of event - at least
it is surely really an open question
whether the mind gives time to the world
or the world gives time to mind
- which is then reflected back
if you hold hard to your perspective
this is all you have
it really entrails nothing outside of itself
we must begin in the middle
consciousness - as the inside -
(I say of the world - and not meaning here to be mystical at all)
consciousness is the inside of the surface that is the outside of
consciousness
it is an inside / outside job
it is just logic
you don't need to worry about substance at all here
the kind of materialism of Alan Place and Jack Smart - is just - thin
it is surface materialism - surface metaphysics
it is only seeing the surface of things
I have great respect for Otto Neurath for saying
'everything is surface'
yes - everything that is seen - observed - empirical - is on the surface -
is the surface
the mind is not there -
consciousness is not on or of the surface
the brain is - as with any other physical form - on the surface -
it is therefore not consciousness
and I'm not really taken with the idea that it is a surface representation
expression as it were
no more that is than anything else
consciousness is simply the inside - of the outside
call the outside matter if you will - OK
call the inside mind
it matters not
the key point to get is that
the world is two dimensional
inside / outside
so yes - everything is surface if you wish to discount mind -
I don't
but I don't say it is observable or empirical
these are categories for the surface
it is the inside of things - at least certain things
it is not outside of nature
it is inside
the categories of description appropriate are the categories it creates
to describe itself - in short the language of art -
art is the language of the inside
of the inner life
we look out and we look in
therefore space
inner / outer space
this is what we know
it is the reality
there are primarily and finally two instances of our looking
therefore time
inner time
outer time
again
our reality
is what we know
