10 May 2009

The immediacy of Now

"For our purely subjective time-consciousness the starting point is always the immediate Now, with which memory connects the nearest Past with tolerable confidence as to the sequence and duration of its particular moments, and the more remote with diminishing certainty with reference to the Before and After, and to the particular intervals. But this Now is not a fixed point; it advances incessantly in time, and as the head of a comet is followed by a constantly changing tail, so this moving Now is followed by a chain of memories which is always changing its form."

Christoph von Sigwart, LOGIC, Vol. 2, p. 238

Okay, its pretty much a random I Ching type thought-of-the-day. You can explore Sigwart yourself if you've a mind to in this or some future present.
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