We Live, we die. For the Time-Being.
We Live, we die. For the Time-Being.
This concept of a Time-Being is a bandwidth of frequency unique to our species. We are adaptive time beings. Historicity and futurity, as well as felt experiences are all perceived in discrete packets of time. Imagine a cognition where we live for only an instant (in perceived time) but the instant is one-hundred years! Our cognitive experience would be an on/off switch. In existence one moment, and gone the next. In this thought experiment, we don’t experience one-hundred years of experiences in this instant, we only experience on and then off. This is a frequency of perception that negates all human experience as we know it. Human perceptions of time attenuate the amplitude of perception. Further attenuations would be a capacity to process more information in the moment-to-moment. We are on this path. Will we eliminate death from this equation? Only time will tell. For me, this is where evolution is headed, a enhanced ability to perceive time, identify patterns and replicate information.