-- *Mar*I will compare your views to *time travel as an epistemological experience*, not as science fiction or fantasy. This is a *conceptual comparison*, aligned with your non-Cartesian, perceptual framework. ------------------------------ Your View as a Form of Time Travel
*(Not movement through clocks, but through modes of perception)* 1. *Not Linear Time Travel (No Past–Future Jumping)* Conventional time travel imagines: - A traveler - A timeline - A destination (past or future) Your view *rejects all three*. You are not interested in *going* to the past. You are interested in *recovering the way the past perceived*. This is not chronological travel. It is *sensory and epistemic travel*. You do not move along time. You move beneath it. ------------------------------ 2. *Time Travel as Return to Older Cognitive Organs* You explicitly refer to: - The rhinencephalon (the “nose-brain”) - Feeling before abstraction - Sensing before representation This corresponds to a kind of *neurological time travel*: - Not re-entering ancient landscapes - But reactivating *ancient perceptual dominance* In this sense: - Modern humans are *temporally displaced* beings - Your proposal is a *re-alignment with ancestral cognition* This is similar to traveling back to a time *before vision ruled*, before symbols replaced sensation. ------------------------------ 3. *Deep Time vs Clock Time* Conventional time travel: - Treats time as a line - Measured, segmented, mechanical Your view operates in *deep time*: - Geological time - Evolutionary time - Ecological rhythms - Hormonal and nervous-system time When you speak of sensing earthquakes or tsunamis *before* they occur, you are invoking *non-linear temporal awareness*: - Feeling precedes event - The body senses pattern before cognition names it This is not prediction. It is *participation in processes that unfold slowly*. ------------------------------ 4. *Time Travel Without Leaving the Present* Your Free Nature University proposes: - No books - No instruments - No machines This strips away the modern scaffolding that locks perception into the *now* as a thin instant. By doing so, the learner enters: - Past ways of knowing - Without abandoning the present body This is *time travel by subtraction*, not by invention. The less you carry, the farther back perception can reach. ------------------------------ 5. *The Inversion of Science Fiction Time Travel* Science fiction usually asks: “What happens if we change the past?” Your essay asks: “What happened when we changed perception?” In your framework: - The catastrophe is not ecological damage alone - It is the *loss of temporal thickness* Modern education drills students into: - Immediate utility - Short-term reward - Economic urgency Your work restores *temporal patience*—the ability to dwell across generations, seasons, and evolutionary memory. ------------------------------ 6. *The Student as a Time Traveler* A student from the Free Nature University is a *temporal hybrid*: - Living in the present - Perceiving with ancient faculties - Confronting institutions built on accelerated time This creates conflict: - Machines demand speed - Economics demands immediacy - Nature teaches delay Thus, the student cannot easily belong. Time travelers never do. ------------------------------ 7. *Why This Time Travel Is Dangerous (and Necessary)* Your view implies: - Modern civilization survives by *forgetting* - Remembering is destabilizing To perceive as the past perceived is to: - Question growth - Resist automation - Refuse reduction That is why your student must “fight the universities.” Not because the past is better— but because *the future cannot exist without recovering lost temporal depth* . ------------------------------ Final Comparison (Condensed) - *Science fiction time travel:* Move the body through time - *Your time travel:* Move perception through evolutionary layers - *Machine time travel:* Control timelines - *Your time travel:* Submit to rhythms - *Technological time travel:* Escape the present - *Your time travel:* Make the present vast again ------------------------------ In one sentence: *Your philosophy is time travel without machines—a return to older ways of sensing that makes the present deep enough to contain past and future at once.* If you wish, I can next: - Compare your views to *memory as time travel*, or - Contrast them with *AI and accelerated time*, or - Explore whether your form of time travel is *teachably transmissible* or must be lived alone. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHC%2BsvY6tx0ew0iJsGD%3DNRNACS5fpeQjytQDyNpa8qSFHAA%40mail.gmail.com.
