by John Merryman
This month, I thought I might offer an explanation for why logic is so often post hoc.
If two atoms collide, it creates an event in time. The result is that there are two directions of time. The physical reality of the atoms is going from one event to the next. On the other hand, the event goes from being in the future to being in the past. A larger example is that the rotation of the earth relative to the position of the sun creates these events called days. So while the earth's rotation proceeds through these series of events, any particular day goes from being in the future to being in the past.
What is happening is that specific physical activities are creating information. The rotation of the earth creates days, not the other way around. Days do not cause the rotation of the earth. This relationship defines our existence. The material of this physical planet and the conscious virus of biology it carries have been going through a very long process of activity and information creation. A long time ago the biological component of this material was recording information called dinosaurs and that called the human species was far in the future. Now it is manifesting as humanity and dinosaurs are past. Individual lives are the same. First they are in the future and then in the past, meanwhile the process goes on to the next generation, like the hand of the clock goes onto the next hour. The relationship is the same as the atoms though. It is the specific activity which causes the information, not the other way around. This seems logical enough, but it is apparent there is some feedback mechanism in which this information does affect activity. Actually it is there from the beginning. The event of two atoms colliding affects their future course and subsequent actions and events.
This relationship defines our thinking as well. Our minds are constantly consuming input in the form of energy which is defining information. Because it is far more and coming at speeds far faster (much at the speed of light), then we can use, our minds are like little factories, manufacturing conceptual units called thoughts. The problem is that our minds are material, but these thoughts are information, so while our minds are constantly moving toward the future, consuming input, the thoughts they create are rapidly receding into the past and by the time they cause a reaction, the situation has changed. That is why people who depend on the speed of their reactions, such as athletes, learn not to think, but to process the input as seamlessly as possible. Rather then the information being absorbed by the brain, their awareness has been pushed out to the thinnest membrane on the edge of their consciousness. In essence it has been reduced to how an insect might react to stimuli. To a very real extent, this is what life is, that thinnest of membranes that is the present, moving at the speed of light. The most simple and elemental of awareness. Our complex human thought processes then take this essence and feed it into an internal feedback loop of processing information and reacting to it. A large part of this reaction is maintaining the connection between the information we continue to receive and the evolved structure of our thought processes. There is often a tradeoff between remaining current and maintaining our sense of identity. This explains the evolution of societies as well as individuals, as we try holding on to older forms that lose their effectiveness, but are the foundations of identity.
Not only is someone like Jesus an important social and cultural artifact, as well as moral example, but something like the calendar would be meaningless without a starting date. It's like the grain of sand around which the oyster forms a pearl. Eventually though, either the structure isn't strong enough to support the entity built on it and it collapses, radiating away the energy, or it is too rigid for continued growth and there becomes a rupture between the structure and the vital processes it supported. Either way, the energy goes on
to the future and the information recedes into the past.