Memory, was Re: Platonism in modern etc

[Dace]

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From: Charles Brown
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>>>> "Dace" <edace at flinthills.com> 04/02/00 04:13PM >>>
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>Information retrieval is not the meaning of the word, "memory."  When we
>remember something, we are bringing the past into the present.
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>CB: This sounds like not only time travel, but time removal.  You must be
speaking metaphorically.
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I mean that we bring past perceptions and thoughts into the present.  Matter
is the existence of the present.  Mind is the existence of the past.  This
does not mean there are two existences.  Of course, there is only one
existence: Time.  Consciousness, which joins body and mind-- present and
past-- is the microcosm to time's macrocosm.  This is Bergsonian
metaphysics.  The substance of reality is time.

There's nothing odd about time travel.  What would be odd is time stillness.
In other words, reality is motion, not stasis.  Up until Kant, modern
metaphysics was essentially Plato-- the ultimate reality is set, from above,
by God.  Kant's demolition of Plato cleared the way for the emergence of a
genuine metaphysics, based on flux rather than constancy.  Kind of like the
clearing away of static (state) socialism to make room for a dynamic
socialism to bubble up from below.

Ted