• truth [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Time is like math in that it exists without observation to some degree but without our minds to give it context it isn't really the same thing. I don't think that most animals experience time in a linear way. I don't know if we do either. It seems human perception of time is social, though, so I think we might experience it that way now because of how the world around us it arranged. billy_ray_much_to_think_about.png

    • NeoAnabaptist [any]
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      4 years ago

      Sean from Antifada seems to be really interested in the idea of non-linear time, and it came up a bunch in a book I just read by Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk, in reference to indigenous conceptions of time.

      I don't think it has much bearing on the physics of time (that kind of non-linear time might exist but it's a different thing) actually. I think it has a lot to do with how we measure and chop up our hours, days, and months, as well as our assumptions about the trajectory of society, and up to and including the philosophical mud like eternal recurrence.

      I like to imagine how I would conceive of a day or a week if the environmental pressures and the social norms were very very different.

    • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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      4 years ago

      https://www.dukeupress.edu/beyond-settler-time

      If you don't want to pay, I'm pretty sure we have a totally legal copy linked in the theory doc in the /c/anarchism sidebar.