THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF PHILOCHRONY
The becoming-time duality
This law arises from the philochron table.
.... ELEMENT ..... PROPERTY ....... MAGNITUDE
... space ............ extension ........ length, area, volume
... becoming ...... time ................ duration
- Becoming is the continuous succession of irreversible moments and flows from the beginning to the end.
- Time is the interval between two sequentail moments. The moments are not coexistent. This quality of non-coexistence makes many think that time does not exist or is an illusion.
- Duration is the measure of time. Synonyms of duration are: period, age and permanence.
- Space (coexistence) and time are inextricably linked.
We perceive becoming, for example, listening a song, but we have a mathematical idea of time (magnitive).
Elvis Sibilia
TIME IS NOT AN ILLUSION
The horizon is the visual limit of the earth's surface, where the sky and the earth seem to gather together. In a reflexive approach, we realize that time is part of a trilogy: becoming-duration-time. Becoming is the continuous succession of unrepeatable changes (becoming flows). The duration is the relation between two sequential moments. Time is the variable that increases continuously (time is mathematical). When we think that time is an illusion we do not differentiate between this one, becoming and duration, We see time as an invisible river that drags us all.
PS: The concept of duality becoming-duration (time) changes to the becoming-duration-time Trilogy.