The Image Of Time

Aurelio Grande Rodríguez

• Publisher: Editorial Autores de Argentina
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9789878712086
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

There is no existence without time, because everything in the world is temporary and nothing lasts forever; time is cause and not consequence; permanence is never possible. The concrete and effective things that we see aren´t states but processes that, as such, are made of moments. Everything comes and goes over time, even the hardest and most resistant is diluted when its cycle is completed; like the ephemeral life of the elements. As everything that happens is measured with time, by similarity and consequence, time can only measure other times that are ultimately compositions reduced to moments. In line with this, everything perceived is by its form, a dynamic and active organization of moments where all experience is a function of time made consciousness.

THE PHYSICAL CONDITION OF THE EXTENSIVE MEANING

By effect of quantification, the imaginary aspect of the experience becomes a conscious phenomenon, then by its active properties it acquires physical characteristics and mechanical behaviours. It´s then like the immediate image of the world, even though it´s the same, becomes a snapshot of time; no organization exceeds the duration of its own moment. This image of time is the same as the unstable form, an image of the transformable. From the unity of the world and as a result of its study, a dualistic conception of its context emerges: form and function from matter and movement, the passive and the reactive from the same and only principle; quantity being understood as the result of a conceptual multiplicity.

From the physical point of view, the sensible image of the world is not a fortuitous representation of things, it´s on the contrary the causal effect of a mechanical reactivity that´s characteristic of the composition; that due to its dynamic and active characteristics could no longer be considered insensitive. It´s in the interactive phenomenology of bodies itself, a property that makes it possible for "matter" not only to manifest sensitivity but also to be compatible with the structures of biological systems; by virtue of a series of biophysical properties that link and synthesize the different categories of nature -without which the generation and metabolism of living observed environments would be impossible -incompatible because they´re different.

Even though mechanics is a concept of modernity based on statics and kinematics linked by dynamics, the origins of the discipline go back to the first classification of classical philosophy, organized according to its place on the "conceptual shelf"; as physics on the one hand and metaphysics on the other (Aristotle). Officially it´s a particularly materialistic, arbitrary and conventional science, dedicated to the study of the "inanimate" part of nature; understood as "the objective part of our ideas" and of which it´s supposed, it would have to be its reflection. As a consequence of the organization, it´s also a science of form and relationship, where a movement, already understood as real or apparent, makes organization possible, causing transformations. In general terms, the physical conception of the natural world, is based on the principle in a definite and immobile form, characterized by order, quantity and reference; where mechanics understood as the study of the forces that underlie the phenomenology of interactions, determines with its actions the dynamics of movements. This system constitutes the structural and active universe of our sensory representations, divided, at first, between forms and functions; being determined the physical question, by the sensible aspect of the observable and the tangible -by reason of the apparent and the effective.

This fundamental character of the physical question arises, however, with an inherent contradiction in its very ambiguous condition, since it´s by definition insensitive and even so, it´s mechanically reactive, transformable and convertible; in things that for some non-physical reason they would no longer be indifferent –which, obviously, in strictly materialistic terms, is incomprehensible.

This discipline that first participated in a general model, throughout a process of specialization, tried to despair of its cosmological origins, progressively becoming a dominant system that unjustifiably denied its philosophical past; but he was nevertheless a victim of his own development.

It can be said without fear of falling into error, that the dynamic and active phenomenology of matter would only be possible if it had already incorporated those same active properties that, by similarity, accompany all transformations. Bad could then be considered an inert or inanimate principle as the basis of the so called inorganic matter, which due to its insensitive characteristics wouldn´t have the capacity for interaction and, therefore, nor would it be perceptible either. But it wouldn´t be inorganic either, because where there´s a form there´s a structure and that´s a composition in which there´re also links and interactive properties that depend on time.

It´s very important to pay attention to these details because they can be decisive, especially when we study the characteristics of material phenomena that, without having to reach their ultimate fundamentals, already indicate an incessant activity that no partisan stubbornness can suppress. The magnetic and electrical properties, and especially the gravitational ones, are irrefutable proof of the great activity exhibited by elements that, due to their similarity, shouldn´t be essentially different from that carried out in living organisms.

While it is true that there´s a recognition factor for everything, classifications are ultimately the result of an arbitrary procedure; in this case, practical, subjective and ideological.

It must be taken into account that this matter considered inert and static, is also biologically constituted as the support of some functions of consciousness that develop over time; which is obviously a contradiction that no argument can suppress -it can nevertheless be resolved. The study of the matter and its functions requires an exhaustive critical analysis that transforms the inconsistencies and contradictions of a model marked by a prejudicial, conflictive and unjustifiable relationship, into a logical system -coherent, consistent and unitary.

This aspect of organized matter is very interesting, since it´s assumed that starting from a substance in a basic state of nature, the brain is organized in an artificial way when it´s assigned a special shape; which then paradoxically, by means of functions that are no longer things but processes, produces virtual and highly volatile representations that, as a representation of things based on form, confirm and at the same time contradict their material basis. It´s a circular process between the structures and their functions, which due to their incommensurability shouldn´t occur but which certainly do; as if despite the differences, these incommensurables existed on similar principles.

The paradigm of modernity

As an independent discipline, physics (on behalf of science) tries to detach itself categorically from its philosophical roots through the argument of a material existence; that it would be justified by itself because of its observable characteristics. Differentiating itself and breaking away from the oldest philosophy and its logical system, it organizes its method by marking a historical difference that reaches its full maturity with the development of mechanics in the seventeenth century. Historically, this determined the end of the middle ages by representing in a new way, the advent of the technology of measurement, experiment, and prediction; about a series of events that determine the beginning of modernity.

With the introduction of numbers and time, from the studies carried out by Galileo and Newton in a successive and consistent way, a new way of understanding the logic of events that take place in nature was developed; incorporating the calculation procedure, a quantitative modality is introduced in the description of the bodily interactions. This meant in practical terms, the implementation of a highly useful methodology for the prediction of natural phenomena, thus becoming an economy based on the exploitable utility of constructive and transformable possibilities.

Science in general, but especially physics, doesn´t necessarily seek the truth but rather the development of its system and the optimization of economic resources. Its object only refers to facts that as such don´t need to be false or true, they only have to be effective.

From applying mathematical methods, the physical system has been developing on the experience and prediction, thus establishing its principle of confirmation. The pillars of science were thus, perfectly defined by means of its fundamental principles; procedures empirical and analytical models of problematic theoretical and hypothetical models. Within its system, bodies are related by exchanging their mechanical properties, since the transmission of impulses is carried out through a series of concrete interactions that can be provoked and observed objectively; even when they originate from intentions that´re neither objective nor material -they would in any, case be volitional actions.

This theoretical and empirical scaffolding destined to justify the materiality of the world, has always needed to introduce elements that would no longer be material: forces, movements, wills and knowledge, which are essentially incommensurable -and in all cases, time.

Although the facts are the product of observations (always subjective), they become objective because they respond to a method by which it´s assumed, they can be recognized by any trained person; procedure with which the conventions of the discipline were installed -which was imposed by teaching- as a cultural matrix. However, this doesn´t explain at all the fundamental cause of the same phenomena that it describes, especially the reason that, due to an inexplicable movement, causes the incessant transformations.

The physical problem is as clear as it´s confusing and paradoxical, since even though all of this is largely observable, certain agents that are as necessary as they´re ghostly arise from events that still remain in darkness and uncertainty; they´re forces and their effects on bodies -factors in principle, associated and irreducible.

These fundamental principles, formally established as enunciated in the character of law, are given by the problematic situation, consensual opinions and transmitted by teaching, their legitimacy being guaranteed only by the hegemony of the dominant paradigm; depending on their acceptance of the ideological transfer of the model. Regarding this, I can say, anticipating the inevitable criticisms, for example, that the first law of mechanics proposes something that, beyond any experiment, doesn´t respond to its own logic: if the principle of inertia were true, nothing could happen from a given condition. Inert matter, as such and by itself, would never react even if it interacted; something that necessarily refers us to a divine intervention that for obvious reasons, science definitely discards. But, and this is the most remarkable thing, the unobservable and immaterial forces do act effectively on bodies endowed w...