Tree Rings and the Future

Insofar as the Time of a tree terminates at its most current ring, its Temporality entails no 'Future' dimension. Now, it might be argued that a tree possesses just enough imagination for it to entertain the possibility of the formation of further rings, in which case it does 'have a future'. However, such a possibility is the product of a projection, and a projection is only an abstraction from ring-formation. Furthermore, whether that abstraction is given to the tree as an a priori idea, or is extrapolated a posteriori from past experience, it is in each case derived only from the forming of rings. Regardless, it can still be argued that the tree possesses a priori the idea that no matter how long it lives, its existence is finite, and, so, that the awareness of that finitude constitutes an a priori idea of the Future. But, again, such awareness of finitude is no more than a projection of a cessation of ring-forming, and, hence, qua a projection, is no more than an abstraction from such a process. Thus, as a model of human Temporality, the Tree Ring image illustrates how 'the Future' is not an original dimension of Time, but is the product of an abstraction from Spatialization, even in Heidegger's theory.