Corpuscles of Now

September 27th, 2006 Fred McVittie Posted in Husserl, Edmund, Perception, Presence, Time |

Husserl makes the observation that a perception is not simply a static, atemporal image, but also contains the dimension of time. Each percept contains a retention of the ‘just past’ and a protention of what is about to occur. Perceptual presence, therefore, is not ‘punctual’; it is rather that now, not-now, and not-yet-now exist in what Husserl refers to as a ‘horizontal gestalt’.

To paraphrase Richard Dawkins, ‘we are all beings that live for a medium duration of time, experiencing that life in medium-sized moments, midway between femtosecond and cosmological time.

(”Hindu cosmological time cycles represent numerically the life of our solar system and are a comprehensive system of time measurement based upon the sexagesimal number system with units as small as 1/216000 of a day and as large as 3.1104×1014 years.”
http://www.aaronsrod.com/time-cycles/time-cycles-03.html)