VTah Part VIII — The Fugaciousest Snow on Earth!

By:  Greg
November 24, 2014 9:51 am | Category: Skiing, VTah

Oddest of all, these “blind spots” are the corners with which we seem to be most intimate, and which we can never avoid: time and space…
time and space
time and space

…intelligence and logic itself.
intelligence and logic itself
intelligence and logic itself

The implications of “unblinding” these corners are severe. Minkowski spacetime cast serious doubt on free will. Wittgenstein seems to conclude that determinism reigns. Hofstadter pronounces that Mechanism is certain.
know when we see

But how do they explain this? I can’t reconcile my experience of such fleeting moments with a Williams-esque “absolute conception of reality.”
this
this

Augustine and Aristotle’s “Ever Shrinking Present” arguments against the existence of time itself don’t float here. They submerge.
this

These are extant instants, at least to me.
extant intants

Oh, and yes, I know that’s not the proper superlative form of fugacious. I just liked how silly it sounded.

References:
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 397, “Confessions.”
Hofstadter, Douglas and Emmanuel Sander, 2013, “Surfaces and Essences.”
Lucas, J.R., “Time and Reality,” talk delivered 11.02.2009, Oxford.
Minkowski, Hermann 1908/9, Raum und Zeit, Physikalische Zeitschrift 10: 75–88.
Williams, Bernard, 1995, “Making Sense of Humanity.”
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1953, “Philosophical Investigations.”

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5 Comments

  1. robrox
    wrote on November 24th, 2014 at 12:36 pm  
    1

    Ah, that moment when the snowflake slices and is sliced, when the heart is between contraction and release, or release and conctraction, when the mind is both all-seeing and oblivious.

    Double Fun!

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  2. Peter
    wrote on November 24th, 2014 at 6:35 pm  
    2

    I’m planning on skiing all this pow tomorrow!11eleven! so excited.

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  3. Anonymous
    wrote on November 24th, 2014 at 9:18 pm  
    3

    Wow an amazing return to the white room this November. Nicely done

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  4. Charles
    wrote on November 26th, 2014 at 10:08 am  
    4

    Well said, maybe a string is better, keep searching!

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  5. bushman
    wrote on November 29th, 2014 at 11:33 pm  
    5

    fugacious: auditory term for phish-phish-phishing as one slices VTah powder in November. well-deserved shots Greg

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