I like how your brain works.
Yes, to me, I don't see paradoxes as being valid; just
limitations on our assumptions based on our biological
prejudice. As we're not outside the very spacetime we're trying
to discover more about, we're like fish trying to understand
drinking. [making conscious something we never even have to
consider it's such a part of who we are and how we operate]
I like thinking of the nature of the focal point; what happens
when light is flipping? What's it like to go into unexpected
directions while flipping and turning inside-out like that and
finally upside down and backwards?
I symbolize it like >o< in my mind but with the > and the <
overlapping and the 'o' not so much a point but as anything that
fits within that "moment".
I don't believe that the present moment does not exist; I
believe it *does* exist, but our perception and assumption of it
is biologically limited and so, any systems we use to analyze
the nature of things *must*, I believe, take into full account
the biology of the creatures (us) who are coming up with the
mathematical systems, the sciences, and other descriptions of
the nature of things. Otherwise, we can easily get lost in a
perfect representation that's entirely logical but fundamentally
only true for, us.
For example, our brains perceive past and future using mostly
the same mechanisms in the brain. Our ficton freely moves around
past, present and future, has no trouble with simultaneousity...
Our brains tend to enjoy patterns. We prefer systems that can
compress knowledge for that is how our brains function it seems.
We categorize and group based on our perspective. Languages,
whether spoken or written, are very complicated machines that
can do amazing things and even be used to create things in
physical reality based upon their construction; words or
mathematics alike can be used to build a computer, a bridge,
construct a concept that can be expressed in some form; concepts
compressed into bundles of words or numbers of mathematical
expressions, and decompressed in a brain with similar training -
or in a computer that has been mechanically designed in a
similar fashion, to function in a similar way as the machines
built by our concepts do.
[and I consider electrons, photons, all perfectly mechanical
things]
With all that being said, I think humans do have a tendency to
find a language of description and recreate a version of their
experience of reality with it. The Lego Bricks may be different
(it may be words, it may be mathematics); and we can construct a
version of reality that is extraordinarily similar to what we
perceive as reality... but it's view of reality that is
befitting for HUMANS, for our biology, for our cognitive
makeup... fitting our assumptions and prejudices as beings
within it, at our scale and size.
Time does not exist for a photon because, at present, it is our
perceived limit of Time so in our imagination, "to be like a
Photon" would be to experience Timelessness; as already arriving
withing any experience of passage... and it is us, as slow
creatures that can perceive its travel.
And this is quite logical, For humans. From our perspective.
We also believe that two intersecting light cones cannot see the
intersection; it takes a 3rd party as it were to see it
happening. In short, at the focal point, there is blindness for
the two parties involved.
But; interestingly enough, that is *also* our limitation, our
inability. I believe we have patterned the nature of lightcones
and the behavior of it, on us and our visual systems.
Yet, there is precedence; the 720 degree spin of the electron
(and possibly the photon, I do not know) - what we perceive as
turning inside out. perhaps a similar thing happens with the
magnetic and electrical fields at the crossover point; I don't
know.
I'm not sure what I'm saying here really; not in full. I'm not
disagreeing; I believe everything you say is true and is so. Yet
I can't help shake a sense that the map becomes the territory
itself when a single language gains dominance. Not that it's a
bad thing; it will take us far.
But, like the concept of infinity, it can be easy to mistake the
ideals for reality and construct reality based on the ideals
with a greater certainty than observation would afford.
And, I believe, once we reach the level of constructing reality
based on an idealized system, our own biological limitations
become even more critical to not lose... for it's very easy to
float away in a world of ideas that aren't grounded; and
mathematics perhaps more than other disciplines has that danger
within it; although writers, artists and musicians have also
gotten lost in the purity of their art as well.
