Re: past/future in present
Jay Lemke (jllbc who-is-at cunyvm.cuny.edu)
Wed, 03 Sep 1997 23:16:41 -0400
For my part, I think Eva is right on both counts: Edelman's time reference
that puts us always just behind events, even those of our own perceptual
system, is that of an externalized, technical construction; and our
_experienced present_ is, contrariwise -- and very probably BECAUSE of what
Edelman's view opens up as possibilities -- very far from this atomized,
technical, quasi-instantaneous present: it is rather a multi-scale present,
a present whose 'cogent moments' (Salthe's phrase) overlap irreducibly into
pasts and futures on the many scales of the many processes in which we
bodily, and meaingfully, participate. JAY.
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JAY L. LEMKE
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
JLLBC who-is-at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
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