Extension & Process as Space & Time
The process of extension and contraction, the unfolding and blossoming of reality, is the ground, or basis, for our abstracted conception of "space" and "time". The concepts of space and time are meaningless without the physical process; to speak of a space-less time, or a time-less space, a time without the extension of a physical process, or a space without the extending of the same, is nonsensical.
Of course, as a purely hypothetical mental exercise, we can imagine an already extended space as a frozen image, as a static existence. However, such an imaginary state is just that, and would be meaningless if actualized, motionless, changeless. Time is a function of the process of extending into space, and the relationship between the extending parts, the space, or distance, describes the phenomenal experiencing of that process.
Time and space are interdependent abstractions describing the natural processes of relative motion. They are interdependent concepts that represent two perspectives of the perceptual experience of physical phenomenon, of motion, of change, of extension and contraction and movement of objects, either in relation to themselves, or other objects, whatever arbitrary boundaries one imposes on the "system," or artificial divisions one conceptualizes within experience.
Time merely represents the relational property of duration (of the experience), and space the relational property of extension or location of the object or objects of experience. "Time" and "Space" are thus subjectively real conceptualizations of the ever-changing nature of reality...
Of course, as a purely hypothetical mental exercise, we can imagine an already extended space as a frozen image, as a static existence. However, such an imaginary state is just that, and would be meaningless if actualized, motionless, changeless. Time is a function of the process of extending into space, and the relationship between the extending parts, the space, or distance, describes the phenomenal experiencing of that process.
Time and space are interdependent abstractions describing the natural processes of relative motion. They are interdependent concepts that represent two perspectives of the perceptual experience of physical phenomenon, of motion, of change, of extension and contraction and movement of objects, either in relation to themselves, or other objects, whatever arbitrary boundaries one imposes on the "system," or artificial divisions one conceptualizes within experience.
Time merely represents the relational property of duration (of the experience), and space the relational property of extension or location of the object or objects of experience. "Time" and "Space" are thus subjectively real conceptualizations of the ever-changing nature of reality...
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