On Apr 21, 2013, at 12:00 AM, Jinan K B wrote:
> In fact learning ' from experience’ is what brings in the awareness of time.
> So the ‘literates’ permanently lives in the past. Mind plans and body
> executes. Experience always happens in the NOW and naturally cognition can
> happen only in the NOW.
Jinan,
Although, I mostly agree with you, and admire your recognition that the awareness of time comes with experience, I believe you overstate the case when you say that cognition can happen only in the now.
If you mean't "consciousness" of experience can only happen in the now, I would agree ( if you add the idea that now is "time stamped" in the flow of consciousness.)
I would also say, counter to many views of embodied thought, that the conscious "now" is not always accompanied by an interaction with an external environment. It can be an artifact of the mind, as in a conscious awareness/interpretation/expression of an intuition, plan, or memory. Mental phenomenology deserves a place beside the phenomenology that combines sense data with memories however they are accessed (words, images, feelings, places, events, etc.) The mind is never separate from the body other than by our "literate" coding and abstraction of it from its brain/body/environment context. (The processing of such "coded" events and abstract structures is, after all, why we have a prefrontal cortex.)
Thanks very much for your well considered and articulate posts. They have been a fine "literate" stimulus to my mental phenomenology.
Best regards,
Chuck
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