Relative Time Relative space and consciousness
- Moveen
- Mar 5
- 2 min read
Updated: 5 days ago
What is time and space compared to consciousness? To answer that, we need to know what time is relative to consciousness. Time is the ability of a conscious being to remember a state of things as they were and compare them to as they are. So in that sense, time is memory.
What is space compared to consciousness? It is the ability to distinguish one place from another. Distinguishing is also a form of memory since we need to remember the one place to see that it is not the same as another place.
So Time and Space is closely related to the short-term understanding of the state of being of things around us. The continuous memory of things through distinguishing one state of being from another.
This way, time and space would not exist. Since if there was no consciousness to "receive" reality at an arbitrary pace, everywhere and every time would exist all at once an infinite number of times in an infinitesimally small space and an infinitesimally small time, infinitely. And for all we know, it does. But for time and space to exist as we know it, consciousness is key. For otherwise, time and space would begin and end at the same time and space.
Think about the 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang, it's an arbitrary measure set by an arbitrary pace that, for us, seems to have passed in an instant since we are here. and if we weren't, it would have begun and died taking as long as it wants to take but since there is no consciousness to compare, measure and experience it (in completely arbitary ways) it would be as if it began and died at the same time. So consciousness is why space and time exist. Since what we call space and time is only something that is relative to us.
Superposition could be looked at this way, since the electron exists in all possible orientations until observed, just like reality is.
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