Exordium- The future, not the past, dictates the present.
Narration- The sense of time, Kairos that the Ancient Greeks articulated not solely with regard to identifying the right opportunity to speak symbolized a unique sense of time completely independent of chronos. Chronos, the perception of time in which the “present,” the conception of now, directs sensory perception to only a biological being’s current position in space and time muting the senses to consciousness of the “past,” what happened a second ago, and the “future,” what will happen a second from now. Kairos on the other hand…
Partition- In a purely physical world where the biological variable is eliminated from the equation, quantum mechanics, the art of measuring, quantitatively, the action of subatomic particles, finds itself innately entangled with a highly complex conception of the time dimension referred to by the Ancient Greeks as Kairos.
Peroration- Perception of the present is efficient for humans in an evolutionary sense. Throughout the biological evolution of man one would expect that our Chrono-conception of time as opposed to a kairotic sense of time benefited the species greatly and has been inherently important to the survival and thriving of the species, through group hunting and gathering, and, in the development of agriculture, industry, and technology. The trend that has appeared is that man is at a faster and faster fate reaching these pinnacles of evolution. Take for example the number of years between the evolution from hunting and gathering to agriculture versus the rate of evolution observed in the short time between the industrial revolution and the successful firing of the Large Hadron Particle Collider in Geneva (that happened Tuesday by the way). Man is evolving at a faster and faster rate due to the immense speed and copia of information available. Therefore once evolution reaches a point where it is physically measured instantaneously the human conception of time will evolve along with it to an overall encompassing perception of the past present and future, kairos.
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... and no comments? I am disappointed. I guess that they would have had to been in on our hour long convo on this topic. I think you have an extremely interesting concept, that once clearly defined... is still really complex and hard to understand. That is a compliment being that I rarely find anything so trippy... so true. Either way I had very little copia so forgive the use of the word 'trippy' but the concept is. I think the more insane part of all this, though, is the fact that the rhetoricians ancient were thinking about these very boundaries and immensities so looooooong ago.
ReplyDeleteWow. What an interesting concept, and it really makes me think. This kind of hit me over the head for a second. Deconstructing the idea of kairos and applying it to modern evolution can go in so many directions (ie philosophical, pedagogical, etc). LIke Mick said, it took a while to uncover what you were hitting at, but it's still quite good.
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