Change…

Time, Change, Life, Movement, Consciousness; this list of synonyms. All of the words are the same thing and in most ways are interchangeable. Change is constant. Time is constant. Living is continuous, movement is continuous, and Consciousness is continuous. If any of the terms listed stopped they would no longer continue to be what they are defined as. This is about real duration.
“Things change.” Ron Hall
When my father said this to me as a teenager with unfulfilled expectations, I did not understand what he was saying. Since then and in many different ways I have come to see these two words in a new light, with overarching consequences on the whole of existence.
We have no ability to get out of the flow of the terms mentioned. We demonstrate them with lines but a line cannot define the terms’ unending ness. Time cannot be stopped. Movement cannot be stopped. As stated above the very instance you stop movement it ceases to be movement.
So, we cannot stop time, change, consciousness, etc… but we can change the way these things flow i.e. we can slow down time or speed it up. Through intelligence or experience or other ways we can change the quality of our consciousness.
The bible talks about how God sees time and our lives. It says we have free will, but it also says God can see our whole life at once. He knows what decisions we will make. God is omniscient and he is outside of time, so I believe that the way he sees our lives is consistent with science’s view of how time and free will works. God cannot change the past, once a decision is made it is over, but the next moment has infinite possibilities.

Currently Reading:
Self and Process, The Brain State and the Conscious Present, Jason Brown
Key writings, Henri Bergson
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness, Ranochandran
An Anthropologist on Mars, Oliver Sacks
A leg to stand on, Oliver Sacks
Dance for Two, Allan Lightman
Matter and Memory, Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson: The Philosophy of Change, H. Wilson Carr
The Creative Mind, Henri Bergson
The Philosophy of Poetry: The Genius of Lucretius

Current Projects:
I am hitting a 2×4 for an hour at a time five times a week. I am interested in the change and progression that will happen in the board and my hand over a period of time. I am using my left hand in a karate chop style. I am documenting throughout.
checkout out my progress at www.barronart.net/2007.html

I will start soon a similar project in which I will walk across a nearby rugby field from corner to corner for an hour at a time. I will be document the process.

I am also beginning to build a tower on our outdoor patio at the grad ceramic studio. According to Einstein the further away from the Earth’s surface you are the slower time moves, so I will try to build a tower as high as possible so that I will extend my life.

Similarly to the last project I am searching for the highest points of land near where I live. I plan to travel to these points for the same reason of getting as far from the Earth’s center of gravity as possible. (Clingman’s Dome, Mount Mitchell, etc…)