Thursday, March 17, 2011

Time, Linearity, Locomotility

Human locomotility is essentially linear. For example, in the process of walking, the transition from one location to another is significant, while the height and girth of the walker, even if they happen to vary in the process, are not. Similarly, the essential temporal dimension of this process consists in its ongoing successiveness, while the temporality of the perception of, say, concurrent environmental events, is not. In other words, uni-directional, singular Duration is the temporality of the event of locomotility, the further temporality of which, if the process happens to develop into circumambulation, becomes Recurrence. So, one problem with theories that criticize the Linear concept of Time, e. g. the Durational theory and the Circular theory, especially on the grounds that Linearity is a falsifying abstraction, is that they themselves sometimes abstract Linear temporality from its context of actual Linear motion.

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