Time and Closure

Like the Circular model of Time, the Tree Ring one need not be perfectly round. In either case, even a rough approximation of an ellipse suffices, since what is essential in the former is recurrence, while in the latter, enclosure. More generally in the latter, Temporalization brings closure to a motion and what preceded it, insofar as it treats it as completed, e. g. the awareness 'I am doing X' is properly 'I have been doing X', because a representation is necessarily subsequent to what it represents. Convergence models of Time are therefore correct to treat it as teleological. However, a Convergence model of Time is not to be confused with a Convergence model of Experience, because Experience is constituted by the interplay of Time and Space, with Space countering the closure of Time with overture. Likewise, because the Line combines retaining where it has been and extending itself further, it is a model of Experience more accurately than of Time.